title: The Azure Wizard: A Legend of the Fallen Baronies
author:  Nicholas R. Trandahl 
description: Nicholas Trandahl lives in northeast Wyoming with his girlfriend and two daughters where he works as a staff writer for a newspaper. A very active poet and writer, Nicholas was previously a soldier in the U.S. Army working in Missile Defense, but he returned home to Wyoming to pursue his passion of writing. The realms of fantasy and magic have been a feature of his stories ever since his first reading of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien as a young boy.
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  # Chronicles of the City of Gotham
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James Kirke Paulding
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  THE AZURE HOSE.
  
  
  THE PROLOGUE.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. Necessary to understanding the first.
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER III. An Azure Morning.
  
  
  Footnotes
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. Showing the great benefits arising
  
  
  from having a discreet friend.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. Pure Azure.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. The story hastens slowly.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. More pure azure.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. A great falling off.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. An adventure, being the only one in
  
  
  all our history.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. The two Cupids.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. Sounding without bottom.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. In which the history is perfectly
  
  
  becalmed.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. More Azure.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. A visit and its consequences.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. Mutual mistakes and deceptions. Mr.
  
  
  Lee meditates a most daring exploit.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. Our hero determines on a voyage.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. Highfield enters on a voyage.
  
  
  THE POL