George Macdonald 
Princess and Curdie 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Curdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his father inside the mountain. A mountain is a strange and awful thing. ‘in old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awful ness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beau tiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them – and what people hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are beau tiful terrors.