Although it is perfectly good meadow-land, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall. Huge shapes and odd shapes and small, glimmering things which flash and glitter and are gone. From time to time shapes and figures can be seen, amongst the trees, in the distance. Through the gap in the wall can be seen a large green meadow beyond the meadow, a stream and beyond the stream there are trees. There is only one break in the wall an opening about six feet in width, a little to the north of the village. This wall is old, built of rough, square lumps of hewn granite, and it comes from the woods and goes back to the woods once more. Immediately to the east of Wall is a high grey rock wall, from which the town takes its name.The tale started, as many tales have started, in Wall. There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.Īnd while that is, as beginnings go, not entirely novel (for every tale about every young man there ever was or will be could start in a similar manner) there was much about this young man and what happened to him that was unusual, although even he never knew the whole of it.In Which We Learn of the Village of Wall, and of the Curious Thing That Occurs There Every Nine Years 10 Epilogue: In Which Several Endings May Be DiscernedĬhapter One : In Which We Learn of the Village of Wall.8 Chapter Eight: Which Treats of Castles in the Air, and Other Matters.7 Chapter Seven: 'At the Sign of the Chariot'.5 Chapter Five: In Which There is Much Fighting for the Crown.4 Chapter Four: 'Can I Get There by Candlelight?'.3 Chapter Three : In Which We Encounter Several Other Persons.2 Chapter Two : In Which Tristran Thorn Grows to Manhood.1 Chapter One : In Which We Learn of the Village of Wall.

Neil gaiman and charles vess stardust