Stories by English Authors
Unknown Author
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 19, 2018)
Excerpt from Stories by English AuthorsWhen he was about sixteen, he and I had driven over to some little country races a few miles away from Dalton, without, I fear, announcing our in tention of so doing. Fresh air was good for our dear Richard, and since pedestrian exercise (which he also hated) exhausted him, he had a groom and dog-cart always at his own disposal. It was a day of great excitement for me, who had never before seen a race-course. The flags, the grand stand (a rude erection of planks, which came down, by-the bye, the next year during the race for the cup, and reduced the sporting population), the insinuating gipsies, the hawlin g card-sellers, and especially the shining horses with their twisted manes, all excited my admiration.I was well acquainted with them in fiction; and these illustrations of the books I loved so well de lighted me. Richard, who had read less and seen more, was bent on business.He was tall for his age, but very slight and youth ful-lookin g, and the contrast of his appearance with that of the company in the little ring, composed as it was of a choice selection of the roughest blackguards in England, was very striking.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.