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    A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare
    A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare
    A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare
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    A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

    By George Madden Martin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare - George Madden Martin

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Warwickshire Lad, by George Madden Martin

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      Title: A Warwickshire Lad

      The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare

      Author: George Madden Martin

      Release Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #27187]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WARWICKSHIRE LAD ***

      Produced by David Garcia, Martin Pettit and the Online

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

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Kentuckiana Digital Library)

      A WARWICKSHIRE LAD

      Birthplace of Shakespeare

      Copyright, 1916, by

      D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

      Copyright, 1903, by P. F. Collier & Son, Inc

      Printed in the United States of America

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      CHAPTER VI.

      CHAPTER VII.

      CHAPTER VIII.

      CHAPTER IX.

      CHAPTER X.

      CHAPTER XI.

      CHAPTER XII.

      CHAPTER XIII.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Birthplace of ShakespeareFrontispiece

      Will clambered up on the settle to think it all over

      Dad bends to tweak the ear of Will

      'Ay, but those are brave words, Hammie,' says Gammer

      'Save us! What's that!' cried Gammer

      'Ay, boy, you shall see the players'

      'An' I shall be a player, too,' ... says Willy Shakespeare

      His mother stepping now and then to the lattice window

      Bound for Grandfather's at Snitterfield they were

      For instance he knew one Bardolph ... the tapster at the tavern

      Hidden away among the willows ... he spends the morning

      The two have run away ... to wander about the river banks

      He ... trudged up the path and peered in at the open door

      'When the masterful hand, groping, seizes mine, I shall know it'

      This strange thing called Death ...

      Dad ... sat staring in moody silence

      Tall, sturdy Will Shakespeare could buy up cattle ... as well as the butcher's son

      A WARWICKSHIRE LAD

      I

      Little Will Shakespeare was going homeward through the dusk from Gammer Gurton's fireside. He had no timorous fears, not he. He would walk proudly and deliberately as becomes a man. Men are not afraid. Yet Gammer had told of strange happenings at her home. A magpie had flown screaming over the roof, the butter would not come in the churn, an' a strange cat had slipped out afore the maid at daybreak—a cat without a tail, Gammer said—

      Little Will quickened his pace.

      Dusk falls early these December days, and Willy Shakespeare scurrying along the street is only five, and although men are not afraid yet——

      So presently when he pulls up he is panting, and he beats against the stubborn street door with little red fists, and falls in at its sudden opening, breathless.

      But Mother's finger is on her lips as she looks up from her low chair in the living-room, for the whole world in this Henley Street household stands still and holds its breath when Baby Brother sleeps. Brought up short, Will tiptoes over to the chimney corner. Why will toes stump when one most wants to move noiselessly? He is panting still too with his hurrying and with all he

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