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The Broad Highway (Barbara Cartland's Library of Love, 16)
The Broad Highway - Barbara Cartland's Library of Love, 16 Author:Jeffery Farnol, Barbara Cartland As I sat of an early summer morning in the shade of a tree, eating fried bacon with a tinker, the thought came to me that I might Bome day write a book of my own: a book that should treat of the roads and by-roads, of trees, and wind in lonely places, of rapid brooks and lazy streams, of the glory of dawn, the glow of evening, and the purple sol... more »itude of night; a book of wayside inns and sequestered taverns; a book of country things and ways and people. And the thought pleased me much. But, objected the Tinker, for I had spoken my thought aloud, trees and suchlike dont sound very interesting leastways not in a book, for after all a trees only a tree and an inn, an inn; no, you must tell of other things as well. Yes, said I, a little damped, to be sure there is a highwayman Come, thats better! said the Tinker encouragingly. Then, I went on, ticking off each item on my fingers, come Tom Cragg, the pugilist Better and better! nodded the Tinker. a one-legged soldier of the Peninsula, an adventure at a lonely tavern, a flight through woods at midnight pursued by desperate villains, and a most extraordinary tinker. So far so good, I think, and it all sounds adventurous enough. What! cried the Tinker. Would you put me in your book then? A ssuredly.
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