Excerpt from Plain of Ringlets?
Thus, for instance, if he saw Mr. Cordy Brown, the butcher, stealing out of town, with his spurs in his hat, concealing, as he thought, his hunting apparel under his olive-coloured Macintosh, he would immediately begin, sivin and four's elivin, and eighteen, is twenty-nine - there's that Cordy Brown going out hunting again - rand eight is thirty-sivin - much better be taking up Willowedge and Co.'s overdue bill, than breaking people's hedges scrambling after Jonathan J obling's barriers - and fourteen is fifty-one - Jonathan will be coming to grief himself some day, see his name to a great deal of very suspicious paper - and sivin is fifty-eight; take care he don't do me - with which wise resolution he would dive his hands into the depths of his capacious trouser pockets and begin his sivin-and-four calculations upon somebody else. Not that old Goldspink altogether disapproved of hunting, for at the instigation of his ambitious wife, he had brought our here No. 1, what he called a pair of hunting horses, to enable him to follow the chase with his noble but sadly over drawing customer, the Duke of Tergiversation's foxhounds; but our young friend, after two or three spread-eagleings on his back, became so disgusted with a sharpish switch across the bridge of his nose from the return branch of an ash tree, that he gladly took advantage of a temporary ailment to one of his horse's back legs, to withdraw from the chase, and at the period of our story, was turning his attention to what he considered the more profitable occupation of the Turf. As we shall presently have him down at Roseberry Rocks Races, we will defer a further descrip tion of his person until he comes; it being evident that a man's looks depend very much upon what he puts on, just as a lady is one person in a bonnet, and another in a riding-hat. We will, therefore, now return to the Rocks, and amuse ourselves there as best we can, till Jasper arrives.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book encapsulates the life and passions of the author over a season spent on England's famous Roseberry Rocks. The story is set in a time of great social change when the introduction of the railway brought a surge of new visitors and their continental habits to the island. The author skillfully blends reflections on the English social system with specific details on the habits and lives of various holidaymakers. This book provides an intimate look at the English vacation culture of the mid-19th century while offering commentary on broader social changes and the nature of travel itself. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781332422609_0
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