This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...curled up like an agonised worm. But volatile Taddy, nervouslessly restless and chattery, qualities most trying to David Roger, used to come off scatheless. "Jobson, Sir! Jobson!" he would cry out in a beseeching voice, "do be quiet! You know I cant beat ye, man!" After all Davy was human, and pure justice is most ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...curled up like an agonised worm. But volatile Taddy, nervouslessly restless and chattery, qualities most trying to David Roger, used to come off scatheless. "Jobson, Sir! Jobson!" he would cry out in a beseeching voice, "do be quiet! You know I cant beat ye, man!" After all Davy was human, and pure justice is most inhuman. This is the only bit of autobiography I have allowed myself in this tale. Dear old Davy I My Davy Roger was a Scotchman, such a man as the one depicted in the text: and when I was an ugly, chattering, restless urchin, far up in the classes but in conduct the most mischievous boy in the school, the bite noir The affair of Cicely had effected a revolution in Cornwall life. A stir had been made in the dull, dead waters and not only a stir but a division. Just as Taddy getting on to eleven years of age was beginning to awaken to the meaning of things that were occurring in society about him, he found himself swept into one of the currents and borne along with it. Cornwall had lost the Major. The Fletchers, the Troutbecks, the Latouches had to mourn the absence of the only scion of the aristocracy ever known to have resided in the place. of all the six masters, Davy, who had a wonderful kindness for me, --he was a married man though and without any special sorrows--again and again besought me to restrain my untimely restlessness. "J man! Do be quiet Ye know I can't hit ye 1" A marvellous good teacher was Davy Roger, forcing the wholesome learning down the throats of the sullen, and feeding the willing with it as with pap, in all joy and tenderness. The grass grow green on thy grave, O strong and gentle master!--Ed. Lieutenant Manley, a young gentleman in command of the small detachment which held the barracks, a ra...
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