I dreamed once, that four men sat by the winter fire talking and telling tales, in a house that the wind howled round.

And one of them, the eldest, said: “When I was a boy, before you came to this land, that bar of red sand rock, which makes a…

Autograph synopsis of Chapters IV-XXIII, written on one side only of a quarto leaf of white laid paper. No watermark. The MS. is headed 'Things to be noted' in Morris' hand. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, p. 173.

Due to Morris's revisions it is not entirely clear where the separation of tales occurs