The Wart is the name given to the King Arthur character during his childhood in T. H. White’s novels The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King. When he gets lost in the forest chasing an errant goshawk, the Wart meets Merlyn, who teaches the boy what he needs to know before revealing his royal lineage.
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Wart Character Timeline in H is for Hawk
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Chapter 24: Drugs
...story of King Arthur when he was just an ordinary little orphan boy called the Wart. The Wart’s magical teacher, Merlyn, educates him by turning him into various animals. And while...
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...by his own early experiences of abuse, and they horrified him. The scene between the Wart and Colonel Cully also echoes the hazing White experienced—and visited upon others—during his boarding school...
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Chapter 26: The Flight of Time
...Macdonald sees the two books as connected. Early in The Sword in the Stone, the Wart and his friend Kay lose Colonel Cully while hunting in the forest. Kay goes home...
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