title: To Stand As Witness: Three Arthurian Tales
author: Lee Martindale
description: In true bardic tradition [Martindale] passes on the legend and glory that was Camelot. These are stories you will remember. -- <i>Bradley H. Sinor</i><br /><br />Read these three tales to relax, to enjoy, and to be enlightened. -- <i>Steve Miller, co-author of I Dare and Local Custom</i><br /><br />When I dipped into this stunning little collection, I immediately got lost in time. Martindale is truly a master bard. -- <i>Laura J. Underwood</i>
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  #### A Tale of Three Lions
  
  
  [CHAPTER I. THE INTEREST ON TEN
  SHILLINGS](A%20Tale%20of%20Three%20Lions_split_001.html#filepos1272)
  
  [CHAPTER II. WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE
  POOL](A%20Tale%20of%20Three%20Lions_split_001.html#filepos20845)
  
  [CHAPTER III. JIM-JIM IS
  AVENGED](A%20Tale%20of%20Three%20Lions_split_001.html#filepos41800)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # A Tale of Three Lions
  
  
  ### H. Rider Haggard
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. THE INTEREST ON TEN SHILLINGS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the
  
  
  party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and
  
  
  who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry
  
  
  Curtis. He went back to the wilderness again, as these old hunters
  
  
  almost invariably do, on one pretext or another.[*] They cannot endure
  
  
  civilization for very long, its noise and racket and the omnipresence
  
  
  of broad-clothed humanity proving more trying to their nerves than the
  
  
  da