Books with author John%20Kennett

Top 100 Books Master Skylark - A Story of Shakspere's Time by John Bennett There was an unwonted buzzing in the east end of Stratford on that next to the last day of April, 1596. It was as if some one had thrust a stick into a hive of bees and they had come whirling out to see. The low stone guard-wall of old Clopton bridge, built a hundred years before by rich Sir Hugh, sometime Mayor of London, was lined with straddling boys, like strawberries upon a spear of grass, and along the low causeway from the west across the lowland to the town, brown-faced, barefoot youngsters sat beside the roadway with their chubby legs a-dangle down the mossy stones, staring away into the south across the grassy levels of the valley of the Stour. Punts were poling slowly up the Avon to the bridge; and at the outlets of the town, where the streets came down to the waterside among the weeds, little knots of men and serving-maids stood looking into the south and listening. Some had waited for an hour, some for two; yet still there was no sound but the piping of the birds in white-thorn hedges, the hollow lowing of kine knee-deep in grassy meadows, and the long rush of the river through the sedge beside the pebbly shore; and naught to see but quiet valleys, primrose lanes, and Warwick orchards white with bloom, stretching away to the misty hills. But still they stood and looked and listened. The wind came stealing up out of the south, soft and warm and sweet and still, moving the ripples upon the river with gray gusts; and, scudding free before the wind, a dog came trotting up the road with wet pink tongue and sidelong gait. At the throat of Clopton bridge he stopped and scanned the way with dubious eye, then clapped his tail between his legs and bolted for the town. The laughing shout that followed him into the Warwick road seemed not to die away, but to linger in the air like the drowsy hum of bees--a hum that came and went at intervals upon the shifting wind, and grew by littles, taking body till it came unbroken as a long, low, distance-muffled murmur from the south, so faint as scarcely to be heard.

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Frontispiece FACING PAGE THE LORD ADMIRALS PLATERS. THE TRUMPETERS AND THE DRUMMERS LED, THEIR HORSES PRANCING, WHITE PLUMES WAVING IN THE BREEZE 6WHUH BE-EST GOING, NICK? ASKED ROGER DAWSON .. 26 WHAT! How Now? CRIED THE STRANGER, SHARPLY. Dosi LIKE OR LIKE ME NOT? 34 NICK THOUGHT OF His MOTHERS SINGING ON A SUMMERS EVEN- ING DREW A DEEP BREATH AND BEGAN TO SING ... 56 NOBODY BREAKS NOBODYS HEARTS IN OLD JO-OHN SMITHSES SHO-OP, DRAWLED THE SMITH, IN HIS DEEP VOICE; NoR STEALS NOBODY, NOTHER 88 DiccoN HAD OFTEN MADE NICK WHISTLES FROM THE WILLOWS ALONG THE AVON WHEN NICK WAS A TODDLER .. .118 NICK PUT ONE LEG OVER THE SILL AND LOOKED BACK .. 132 On, NICK, THOU ART MOST BEAUTIFUL TO SEE! CRIED CICELY 142 THAT VOICE, THAT VOICE! NAT GILES PANTED TO HIMSELF 152 NICK GAVE THE SILVER BUCKLE FROM His CLOAK TO A BOY WHO STOOD CRYING WITH COLD AND HUNGER IN THE STREET .(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at