Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... rago, making such men as nothing but such trials can make. "But the battles seem but a small part of the misery; the misery without glory to any one. On our way hither from York, my Mother was faint and tired, and we stopped at a little farm-house with an orchard. It was evening, and the woman had just finished milking the cows by the door, and she gave my Mother a cup of new milk while she rested on the settle in the clean little kitchen. There-were two little" children playing about, and the father was at work in the orchard, and one of the children called him, and he brought my Father a cup of cider. And there was a Bible on the table with wood-cuts; and I found the eldest child knew the meaning of them. He said his father had told him. They were very kind and pleasant to us. "And a few days since Harry told me they had passed a little farm with an orchard, and the man was surly and a Puritan, and refused to tell the way some fugitives had fled; and Prince Rupert had him hanged on his own threshold, and drove oif the cows for plunder. "And from what Harry says I feel sure it is the Rame. "And I have scarcely slept since, thinking of that poor man, and the silent voice that will never any more explain the wood-cuts in the old Bible, and the poor hands that will never show their willing hospitality again. "But it is only one, Harry ays, among hundreds 5 and such things must be, and I must not think of it. "But every one of the hundreds is just that terrible only one, which leaves the world all locely to some poor mourner! "Those gentlemen in Parliament have d/radful things to answer for. "Why did not Mr. Hampden pay a thousand times his miserable ship-money rather than lead the country on to such horrors? "For the king cannot have...