Our Village - Softcover

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But did Lady Lumley buy Flossy ? And was Thomas Clewer discharged ? Yes, Thomas was discharged, for Sir John Lumley spoke to his colonel; and he returned to his home and his fond mother, quite cured of his wildness and his fancy for being a soldier. But Lady Lumley did not buy Floss, because, as she said, however she might like him, she never could bear to deprive so good a girl as Amy of any thing that gave her pleasure. She would not buy Floss, but she continued to take great notice both of him and his little mistress, had them often at the castle, always made Amy a Christmas present, and talks of taking her for her own maid when she grows up. EARLY RECOLLECTIONS. THE COBBLER OVER THE WAY. One of the noisiest inhabitants of the small irregular town of Cranley, in which I had the honour to be born, was a certain cobbler, by name Jacob Giles. He lived exactly over-right our house, in a little appendage to the baker's shop,— an excrescence from that goodly tenement, which, when the door was closed (for the tiny square window at its side was all but invisible), might, from its shape and its dimensions, be mistaken for anoven or a pigstye, ad libitum. By day, when the half-hatch was open, and the cobbler discovered at work within, his dwelling seemed constructed purposely to hold his figure ; as nicely adapted to its size and motions, as the little toy called a weather- house is to the height and functions of the puppets who inhabit it;—only that Jacob Giles's stall was less accommodating than the weather-house, inasmuch as by no chance could his apartment have been made to contain two inmates in any position whatsoever. Townlet old Lcland would have called it, and truly the word is worth borrowing. At that half-hatch might Jacob Giles be seen stitching and stitching...