The Wild Things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet high. Their ears are pointed like the squirrel's, only far larger, and they leap to prodigious heights. They live all day under deep pools in the loneliest marshes, but at night they come up and dance. Each Wild Thing has over its head a marsh-light, which moves as the Wild Thing moves; they have no souls, and cannot die, and are of the kith of the Elf-folk.
The Book of Wonder
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bookUnhappy Far-Off Things
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bookUnhappy Far-Off Things
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bookSelections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay
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bookThe Kith of the Elf-Folk
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bookTales of Three Hemispheres
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bookThe Tents of the Arabs
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bookPlays of Near & Far
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bookHow Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Choles
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bookPlays of Gods and Men
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bookThe Prayer of the Men of Daleswood
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bookThe Long Porter's Tale
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