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    Jackanapes
    Jackanapes
    Jackanapes
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    Jackanapes

    By Amy M. (Amy Maria) Sacker and Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Jackanapes - Amy M. (Amy Maria) Sacker

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jackanapes, by Juliana Horatio Ewing

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Jackanapes

      Author: Juliana Horatio Ewing

      Illustrator: Amy Sacker

      Release Date: January 13, 2007 [EBook #20351]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JACKANAPES ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland and Sankar Viswanathan

      JACKANAPES

      By

      JULIANA HORATIO EWING

      Illustrated by

      Amy Sacker

      BOSTON

      L. C. PAGE and COMPANY

      (INCORPORATED)

      Copyright, 1895

      by

      Joseph Knight Company

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      "If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a Jackanapes, never off!"

      King Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2.

      JACKANAPES

      CHAPTER I.

      Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,

      Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay,

      The midnight brought the signal sound of strife,

      The morn the marshalling in arms—the day

      Battle's magnificently stern array!

      The thunder clouds close o'er 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,—in one red burial blent.

      Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine:

      Yet one would I select from that proud throng.

      —— to thee, to thousands, of whom each

      And one as all a ghastly gap did make

      In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach

      Forgetfulness were mercy for their sake;

      The Archangel's trump, not glory's, must awake

      Those whom they thirst for.—Byron.

      Two Donkeys and the Geese lived on the Green, and all other residents of any social standing lived in houses round it. The houses had no names. Everybody's address was, The Green, but the Postman and the people of the place knew where each family lived. As to the rest 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 Grey Goose and the big Miss Jessamine were the only elderly persons who kept their ages secret. Indeed, Miss Jessamine never mentioned any one's age, or recalled the exact year

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