Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Red as a Rose Is She: A Novel
Once upon a time-f-i like that old, time-honoured open ing it makes one so nobly free, gives one so much room to stretch one's wings in, ties one down to no king's reign, no hampering, cloggingcentury - once upon a time there was a valley in Taffy-land; there is still, unless some very re cent convulsion has upheaved it to the top of a mountain, or submerged it beneath the big Atlantic waves; a valley lovelier than that one in Ida, where beautiful Paris, evil-hearted Paris, pastured his sheep and his jet-black goats, and inaugurated his rakish course; a valley where there are no dangerous, good-looking Parises, only one or two red-headed Welsh squires, who have each married, or will in the fulness of time each marry, one lawful wife red-headed, too, very likely; and have never made, will never make, love to any Enones or other ill-conducted young shepherdesses. In fact, in that Arcadia there are no such shepherdesses the daughters of the Oymri do not ply the homely shepherd's trade, nor would they shed much ro mance over it if they did; for with sorrow be it spoken, blowsy are they mostly, hard-featured, toothless and, moreover, the little nimble, lean sheep that go scrambling and jumping and skurrying about the rough crags and steep hill sides do not need any crook'd and melodious Dowsa bellas or Neaeras to look after them and guide them in the way they should go.
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