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    Gabriel and the Hour Book
    Gabriel and the Hour Book
    Gabriel and the Hour Book
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    Gabriel and the Hour Book

    By Adelaide Everhart and Evaleen Stein

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    Release dateNov 1, 2005

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      Gabriel and the Hour Book - Adelaide Everhart

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Gabriel and the Hour Book, by Evaleen Stein

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

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      Title: Gabriel and the Hour Book

      Author: Evaleen Stein

      Illustrator: Adelaide Everhart

      Release Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #27916]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GABRIEL AND THE HOUR BOOK ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Emmy and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      GABRIEL AND

      THE HOUR BOOK

      Roses of

      St. Elizabeth Series

      Each 1 vol., small quarto, illustrated and decorated in colour.         $1.00

      The Roses of Saint Elizabeth

      By

      JANE SCOTT WOODRUFF

      Gabriel and the Hour Book

      By

      EVALEEN STEIN

      The Enchanted Automobile

      Translated from the French by

      MARY J. SAFFORD

      Pussy-Cat Town

      By

      MARION AMES TAGGART

      L. C. PAGE & COMPANY

      New England Building

      BOSTON, MASS.

      Gabriel

      Roses of St. Elizabeth Series

      Gabriel and the

      Hour Book

      BY

      Evaleen Stein

      ILLUSTRATED IN COLOURS BY

      Adelaide Everhart

      L. C. Page & Company

      Boston Mcmvi

      COLONIAL PRESS

      Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co.

      Boston, U.S.A.

      TO

      My friend

      Caroline H. Griffiths

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      CHAPTER I.

      THE LITTLE COLOUR GRINDER

      T was a bright morning of early April, many hundred years ago; and through all the fields and meadows of Normandy the violets and cuckoo-buds were just beginning to peep through the tender green of the young grass. The rows of tall poplar-trees that everywhere, instead of fences, served to mark off the farms of the country folk, waved in the spring wind like great, pale green plumes; and among their branches the earliest robins and field-fares were gaily singing as a little boy stepped out from a small thatched cottage standing among the fields, and took his way along the highroad.

      That Gabriel Viaud was a peasant lad, any one could have told from the blouse of blue homespun, and the wooden shoes which he wore; and that he felt the gladness of the April time could easily be known by the happy little song he began to sing to himself, and by the eager delight with which he now and then stooped to pluck a blue violet or to gather a handful of golden cuckoo-buds.

      A mile or two behind him, and hidden by a bend in the road, lay the little village of St. Martin-de-Bouchage; while in the soft blue distance ahead of him rose the gray walls of St. Martin's Abbey, whither he was going.

      Indeed, for almost a year now the little boy had been trudging every day to the Abbey, where he earned a small sum by waiting upon the good brothers who dwelt there, and who made the beautiful painted books for which the Abbey had become famous. Gabriel could grind and mix their colours for them, and prepare the parchment on which they did their writing, and could do many other little things that helped them in their work.

      The lad enjoyed his tasks at the Abbey, and, above all, delighted in seeing the beautiful things at which the brothers were always busy; yet, as he now drew near the gateway, he could not help but give a little sigh, for it was so bright and sunny out-of-doors. He smiled, though, as he looked at the gay bunches of blossoms with which he had quite filled his hands, and felt that at least he was taking a bit of the April in with him, as he crossed the threshold and entered a large room.

      Good morrow, Gabriel, called out several voices as he came in, for the lad was a general favourite with the brothers; and Gabriel, respectfully taking off his blue peasant cap, gave a pleasant good morrow to each.

      The room in which he stood had plain stone walls and a floor of paved stone, and little furniture, except a number of solidly made benches and tables. These were placed beneath a row of high windows, and the tables were covered with writing and painting materials and pieces of parchment; for the brotherhood of St. Martin's was very industrious.

      In those days,—it was four hundred years ago,—printed books were very few, and almost unknown to most people; for printing-presses had been invented only a few years, and so by far the greater number of books in the world were still made by the patient labour of skilful hands; the work usually being done by the monks, of whom there were very many at that time.

      These monks, or brothers, as they were often called, lived in monasteries and abbeys, and were men who banded themselves together in brotherhoods, taking solemn vows never to have homes of their own or to mingle in the daily life of others, but to devote their lives to religion; for they believed that they could serve God better by thus shutting themselves off from the world.

      And so it came about that the brothers, having more time and more learning than most other people of those days, made it their chief work to preserve and multiply all the books that were worth keeping. These they wrote out on parchment (for paper was very scarce so long ago), and then ornamented the pages with such beautiful painted borders of flowers and birds and saints and angels, and such lovely initial letters, all in bright colours and gold, that

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