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Ungatt Trunn could hear it from where he stood at the mountain’s main shore entrance. He looked at the black charred doors, still solid upon their hinges, and out to the shoreline, crowded by his mighty hordes. To nobeast in particular he commended aloud, “Fools, nought but old fools!”
Striding down to the unconscious forms of Groddil and Swinch, he picked up a pail of seawater and hurled it on their backs. They were revived, moaning with pain. Ungatt leaned down close, so he had their attention. “I want that stripedog found!”
He was about to threaten further when a vision of the other badger flashed into his thoughts. Big, shadowy and as forbidding as the war blade he carried across his back. Straightening up, the wildcat gazed out to sea. He could not explain it, but his confidence felt shaken. Moreover, he did not know whence the warrior badger would come, or the day he would arrive. The wildcat was certain of only one thing: the badger would come!
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Published in Great Britain by Hutchinson Children’s Books, London, 2000
First published in the United States of America by Philomel Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2000
Published by Firebird, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005
Text copyright © The Redwall Abbey Company, Ltd, 2000
Illustrations copyright © Fangorn, 2000
Map illustrations copyright © Andrew Warrington, 2000
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THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE PHILOMEL EDITION AS FOLLOWS :
Jacques, Brian.
Lord Brocktree: a tale of Redwall / written by Brian Jacques;
illustrated by Fangorn.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth-Shaker.
[1. Badgers—Fiction. 2. Animals—Fiction. 3. Fantasy.] I. Fangorn, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.J5317Lr 2000 [Fic]-dc21 00-025140 CIP
ISBN: 978-1-101-66610-4
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