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The Siddhi-kur is a strange and mys terious creature! He is so old that we cannot even guess at his age, and he has traveled so many leagues from the land that originally produced him that we really do not know how much of him is as he was, and how much of him has been changed by time and place. Dusky little boys and girls in faraway India, long, long ago, were the first to listen to the stories that gathered around the figure of the Siddhi-kur, tales of wonder and magic which always ended with the hint of an other, even better one to follow. Then from India, still in the unknown long ago, wandering tribes, or perhaps occasional single travelers, carried the stories into the highlands of Tibet. There they grew and flourished, till the Siddhi-kur in his.
Eleanore Myers Jewett was American author born in New York City in 1890. She attended Barnard College as a comparative literature major and showed great interest in the medieval time period. Her book The Hidden Treasure of Glaston was awarded the Newbery Honor Medal in 1947. Eleanore Myers Jewett grew up in New York City and loved it, but spent every summer in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, where she was a member of a “summer gang” much like that in Cobbler’s Knob. An old sea captain used to take them all out sailing, and she liked best to sit in front of the mast, reveling in the motion of the boat and the long sweep of the blue sea. After she grew up she taught for four years before she married a doctor and moved to upstate New York. She has two married daughters and three grandchildren.
