Excerpt from The Bailiff of Tewkesbury IT was about eight o'clock on a bright cool October evening some three hundred years ago. The moon, nearly at the full, was cleaving her way upward through a shell of dappled clouds, and throwing tree-shadows across the glades of a park in mid-england. Two young men were seated on the turf beside a recently felled log, not upon it, but crouched in its shade, and still further screened by the long fan-like limb of a young beech which spread directly over their heads. As far as their ...
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Excerpt from The Bailiff of Tewkesbury IT was about eight o'clock on a bright cool October evening some three hundred years ago. The moon, nearly at the full, was cleaving her way upward through a shell of dappled clouds, and throwing tree-shadows across the glades of a park in mid-england. Two young men were seated on the turf beside a recently felled log, not upon it, but crouched in its shade, and still further screened by the long fan-like limb of a young beech which spread directly over their heads. As far as their forms could be distinguished, they were both youths of twenty or thereabouts: one, a stout clownish fellow in leather jerkin, leggings and heavy clouted shoes. Coiled round his arm were two or three horse-hair nooses, and a newly-killed hare lay at his side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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