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. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...lane, Creeking comes the empty wain, And driver on the shaft-horse sits, Whistling now and then by fits; And lift with his accustom'd call, Urging on the sluggish Ball. The barn is still, the master's gone, And thresher puts his jacket on, While Dick upon the ladder tall, - Nails the dead kite to the wall. ...
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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. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...lane, Creeking comes the empty wain, And driver on the shaft-horse sits, Whistling now and then by fits; And lift with his accustom'd call, Urging on the sluggish Ball. The barn is still, the master's gone, And thresher puts his jacket on, While Dick upon the ladder tall, - Nails the dead kite to the wall. Here comes shepherd Jack at last, He has penned the sheep-cote fast, For 'twas but two nights before A lamb was eaten on the moor: His empty wallet Rover carries, Now for Jack, when near home, tarries; With lolling tongue he runs to try If the horse-trough be not dry. The milk is settled in the pana, And supper messes in the cans; In the hovel carts are wheel 'd, And both the colts are drove a-field; The horses are all bedded up, And the ewe is with the tup; The snare for Mister Fox is set, The leaven laid, the thatching wet, And Bess has slink'd away to talk With Roger in the holly walk. Now, on the settle all, but Bess, Are set to eat their supper mess; And little Tom and roguish Kate Are swinging on the meadow gate. Now they chat of various things, Of taxes, ministers, and kings, Or else tell all the village news, How madam did the squire refuse; How parson on his tithes was bent, And landlord oft distrain'd for rent. Thus do they talk, till in the sky The pale-eyed moon is mounted high, And from the alehouse drunken Ned Had reel'd--then hasten all to bed. The mistress sees that lazy Kate The happing coal on kitchen grate Has laid--while master goes throughout, Sees shutters fast, the mastiff out, The candles safe, the hearths all clear, And nought from thieves or fire to fear; Then both to bed together creep, And join the general troop of sleep. WRITTEN ON A SURVEY OF THE HEAVENS In the Morning before Daybreak. Ye many twinkling stars, ...
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