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NOTHER had come into the Dark Forest. He rode on a horse over the dark leaves and the dark needles that were on the ground, and no bird made flight from tree to tree before him. "Oh, where have we come to, Baldwin, my horse?" cried John Ball.

For John Ball had followed Golden Hood and Valentine. When he wakened up he saw that Valentine was not near him. He went where the other children were, and he found that Golden Hood was not with them. Then he and the children went through the Deep Wood and they called out the names of Valentine and of