Popular Tales Volume 1
Maria Edgeworth
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, Sept. 13, 2013)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... in the cathedral, who have thought it no laughing matter, and who have been precisely of my own opinion thereupon.' 'But did you tell these gentlemen that you had been eon sulti Mi; the king of the gipsies?' 'No, Sir, no: I can't say that I did.' 'Then, 1 advise you, keep your own counsel, as I Mr. Hill, whose imagination wavered between the liole in the cathedral and his rick of bark on one side, and between his rick of bark and his dog Jowler on the other, now began to talk of the dog, and now of the rick of bark; and when he had exhausted ail he had to say upon these subjects, Mr. Marshal gently pulled him towards the window, and putting a spy-glass into his band, bid him look towards his own tun-yard, and tell him what he saw. To his great surprise, Mr. Hill saw his rick of bark rebuilt 'Why it was not there last night,' exclaimed he, rubbing his eyes. 'Why some eonjurer must have done this.' No,' replied Mr. Marshal, ' no conjurer did it; but your friend Bampfylde the second, king of the gipsies, was the cause of its being rebuilt; and here is the man who actually pulled it down, and who actually rebuilt it. As he said these words, Mr. Marshal opened the door of an adjoining room, and beckoned to the Irish haymaker, who had been taken into custody about an hour before this time. The watch who took Paddy had called at Mr Hill's house to tell him what had happened; but Mr. Hill was not then home. Chapter vrr. Ottr Mistake ari otir,bery selves; tue therefore com.-: bat for them to the last. It Was "with much surprise that the church-warden heard the simple truth from this poor fellow; but n sooner was he convinced that O'Neill was innocent, as to this affair, than he recurred to his other ground of suspicion, the loss of his dog....