title: A Love for Lavender Dragons
author: John David Muth
description: John David Muth was born and raised in central New Jersey. In a high school course he took when he was seventeen, he realized the power of poetry, and today he writes and publishes mostly satirical commentary on American society. He has been an academic advisor at Rutgers University for the past fifteen years, and in his spare time, he volunteers for several environmental and philanthropic causes. He is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative. His work has appeared in such journals as Asinine Poetry, Drown in My Own Fears, Section 8 Magazine, The Stray Branch, and U.S. 1 Worksheets.
zlib_text: EDEN PHELLPOTTS
  The
  LAVENDER DRAGON
  By
  
  T H E  LAVENDER DRAGON
  
  THE LAVENDER 
  DRAGON
  BY
  E D E N  P H IL L P O T T S
  AUTHOR OF
  “  EVANDER,”
  “  PAN AND THE TW INS,’ ' “  PIXIES’ PLOT,”  ETC.
  ¥
  LONDON
  GRAN T RICHARDS LTD.
  ST. MARTIN’S STREET 
  1923
  
  Printed in Great Britain at The Mayflower Press, Plymouth,, 
  William Brendon & Son, Ltd.
  
  TO
  ADAM GOWANS WHYTE
  IN FRIENDSHIP
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive 
  in 2019 with funding from 
  Brigham Young University
  https://archive.org/details/lavenderdragonOOphil
  
  CONTENTS
  C H A P T E R
  I.
  P o n g l e y - i n - t h e - M
  a r s h
  PAGE
  .  
  I
  II.
  T
  h e  A
  p p o i n t m e n t  f o r  R a i n b a r r o w  
  .
  . 
  2 1
  III.
  V
  i g i l  
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  39
  IV.
  T
  h e  D
  r a g o n  
  k e e p s  
  h i s  W
  o r d
  . 
  46
  V.
  T
  h e  D
  r a g o n  E x p l a i n s
  • 
  S4
  VI.
  T
  h e  D
  r a g o n  
  g o e s  
  o n  E x p l a i n i n g
  . 
  8 1
  VII
  G
  r e a t  N
  e w s  f o r  G
  e o r g e  P i p k i n
  . 
  10 5
  VII