Cosmopolis, Vol. 10 Buchkatalog

Excerpt from Cosmopolis, Vol. 10: An International Monthly Review, April-May-June, 1898The children tried it - they tried everything - everything permissible 1_111der the strict svstem of Vicarage discipline - to amuse themselves in these days, when their elders were too tire:l and cross to undertake to keep them happy. They wandered about together, their arms heavi linked round each other's shoulders, dragging their feet along the ¿agged paths in an irritating unison. They stood now, in their haggy little home - made clothes, oh the walk that led down the kitchen garden, bordered with feeble ¿owers, but only bordered, since the middle patch of ground was, perforce, devoted to useful vegetable cultivation. The living of Barmoor was not rich living, and the Rev. Matthew Cooper, its incumbent, did not stand high in position, birth, and education. His gardener, who was also the sexton, was digging the potatoes for early dinner. He grunted while he dug, and his back was turned to the children, who watched, with a kind of fascination born of ennui, the turn of the fork and the roll of the loose mould, and the homy hand that came down every now and then and gathered up the harvest of his teil and Hung it into a basket. Saunders was careless, and let several potatoes roll back into the furrow, out of the eight or so that each turn of the fork should yield.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.