Author : Richard Harris Barham
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265365724
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (657 download)
Book Synopsis The Goldsby Legend, Or Mirth and Marvels, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by : Richard Harris Barham
Download or read book The Goldsby Legend, Or Mirth and Marvels, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Harris Barham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Goldsby Legend, or Mirth and Marvels, Vol. 1 of 2 I should have replied sooner to your letter, but that the last three days in January are, as you are aware, always dedicated, at the Hall, to an especial battue, and the old house is full of shooting-jackets, shot-belts, and double Joes. Even the women wear percussion caps, and your favorite Rover, who, you may remember, examined the calves of your legs with such suspicious curiosity at Christmas, is as pheasant-mad as if he were a biped, instead of being a genuine four-legged scion of the Blenheim breed. I have managed, however, to avail myself of a lucid interval in the general hallucination (how the rain did come down on Monday l), and as you tell me the excellent friend whom you are in the habit of styling a Gren erous and Enlightened Public has emptied your shelves of the first edition, and asks for more, why, I agree with you, it would be a want of respect to that very respectable person ification, when furnishing him with a further supply, not to endeavor, at least, to amend my faults, which are few, and your own, which are more numerous. I have, therefore, gone to work con amore, supplying occasionally on my own part a deficient note or elucidatory stanza, and on yours knocking out, without remorse, your superfluous i's, and now and then eviscerating your colon. My duty to your illustrious friend thus performed, I have (1x) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.