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The Faraway Lurs
The Faraway Lurs (also published as The Distant Lurs ) is a story by the American children's author Harry Behn, published in 1963. It is a romantic tragedy along the lines of Romeo and Juliet.
Title.
The word "lurs" in the title is the plural of the word "lur", which is a borrowing from Danish and/or Swedish and refers to a type of musical instrument. There are two kinds of lurs. The kind referred to in this book is a Bronze
originally one the Sun People, she is now afraid of them because they had tried to sacrifice her. While Heather is high in the tree, Buzz stops humming, allowing the bees to sting Heather. Heather asks Buzz why she stopped humming, and she replies that she can hear a sound. Heather looks in the direction of the sound, and sees the Sun People in the distance driving their cattle toward a nearby lake. The Sun People also make a bronze musical instrument called the lurs. The faraway sound that the