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Jackanapes and The Story Of A Short Life
Author: Juliana Horatia Ewing

JULIANA HORATIA EWINGS WORKS - JACKANAPES AND THE STORY OF A SHORT LIFE JULIANA HORATIA EWING - WITH A SKETCH OF HER LIFE BY HER SISTER HORATIA K. F. GATTY -- CHAPTER I. Ilst noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beautys circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day B... more »attles magnificently stem array I The thunder-clouds close oer it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, -friend, foe, F in one red burial blent. Their praise is hyrnnld by loftier harps than mine Yet one would 1 select from that proud throng. To thee, to thousands, of whom each And one as al a ghastly gap did make In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach Forgetfulness were mercy for their sake The Archangels trump, riot glorys, must awake Those whom they thirst for. BYRON. WO Donkeys and the Geese lived on the Green, and all other residents of any social stand- ing lived in houses round it. The houses had no names. Every- bodys address was The Green, but the Postman and the people of the place knew where each family lived. As to the rest L of the world, what has one to do with the rest of the world when he is safe at home on his own Goose Green Moreover, if a stranger did come on any lawful business, he might ask his way at the shop. Most of the inhabitants were long-lived, early deaths like that of the little Miss Jessamine being exceptional and most of the old people were proud of their age, especially the sexton, who would be ninety-nine come Martinmas, and whose father remembered a man who had carried arrows, as a boy, for the battle of Flodden Field. The Gray Goose and the big Miss Jessamine were the only elderly persons who kept their ages secret. Indeed, Miss Jessamine never mentioned any ones age, or recalled the exact year in which anything had happened. She said that she had been taught that it was bad manners to do so in a mixed assembly. The Gray Goose also avoided dates but this was partly because her brain, though intelligent, was not mathematical, and computation was be- yond her. She never got farther than last Michaelmas, the Michaelmas before that, and the Michaelmas before the Michaelmas before that. After this her head, which was small, be- came confused, and she said, Ga, ga and changed the subject. But she remembered the little Miss Jessamine, the Miss Jessamine with the conspicuous hair. Her aunt, the big Miss Jessamine, said it was her e

ISBN-13: 9781408607749
ISBN-10: 1408607743
Publication Date: 10/26/2007
Pages: 296
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Publisher: Patterson Press
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