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Marlfox

Brian Jacques
Chapters (79)
  1. CHARGE!
  2. THE REDWALL BOOKS
  3. Dedication
  4. Map
  5. PROLOGUE
  6. ACT ONE
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  33. ACT TWO
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  58. ACT THREE
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  77. Epilogue
  78. Epilogue
  79. What’s next onyour reading list?

CHARGE!

Marlfox axes slashed the air and spears bristled in the night as the vermin pressed in. Any beast unfortunate enough to fall was trampled flat in the melee. Though they were heavily outnumbered, the Noonvale Troupe were giving a splendid account of themselves. Florian had formed them into a tight circle. Standing at its center wielding a long grass rake, dealing out devastating blows over the heads of his companions to the rats who pressed them in on all sides, the lanky hare boomed out his challenge. “C’mon, babe-stealers, try me for size, wot! I’m the son of the rip-snortin’ rat-tippin’ Wilffachop, try stealin’ me away in a sack an’ I’ll peel your hides to th’bone an’ feed y’to each other!”

As soon as he heard the war cry of Redwall being shouted over by the southwest corner, Log a Log drew his rapier and roared out the battle call of the Guosim shrews.

“Logalogalogalogaloooooog! Chaaaaarge!”

THE REDWALL BOOKS

Redwall

Mossflower

Mattimeo

Mariel of Redwall

Salamandastron

Martin the Warrior

The Bellmaker

Outcast of Redwall

The Pearls of Lutra

The Long Patrol

Marlfox

The Legend of Luke

Lord Brocktree

Taggerung

Triss

Loamhedge

Rakkety Tam

High Rhulain

Eulalia!

Doomwyte

The Sable Quean

The Great Redwall Feast (picture book)

A Redwall Winter’s Tale (picture book)

OTHER BOOKS

Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman

The Angel’s Command

The Tale of Urso Brunov (picture book)

The Ribbajack and Other Curious Yarns

Voyage of Slaves

Urso Brunov and the White Emperor (picture book)

Dedication

To the memory of a true Redwall friend
and talented illustrator, Allan Curless

Map

To where will they go,

This is a secret nobeast may know.

Marlfox!

Plundering murdering vulpine thieves,

Who blend with stone,

Or meld with leaves.

Marlfox!

See the pale eyes and swirling cloak,

Appear like nightmare,

Vanish like smoke.

Marlfox!

What steals upon the silent air,

Gleaming fangs, mottled fur,

A deadly axblade lying there.

Marlfox!

Nobeast living can hide from thee,

O thou who treads invisibly,

Cross hill and vale, through woods and rocks.

Marlfox!

Marlfox!

Marlfox!

PROLOGUE

Who are we but strolling players,

Wand’ring through the long ago,

Joys and sadness, hopes and longings,

Keep us traveling onward though

The laughter and applause of others,

Who view the passing cavalcade,

Leave echoes hovering some far summer,

Floating round a woodland glade.

’Twas but a tale for your amusement,

Like my small unworthy rhyme,

Gone, alas, into those realms,

The land of once upon a time.

ACT ONE

Enter the Players

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Eternally serene, the moon ruled over star-strewn vaults of cloudless sable night, like a round shield of flecked amber, casting pale light to the earth below. Vagrant breezes from the distant sea drifted idly through Mossflower Wood’s southwest margins, cooling the heavy warmth a bright summer day had left in its wake.