My Uncle, the Clockmaker
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Excerpt from My Uncle, the Clockmaker: A Tale That old cart was a regular tantalizer every Saturday afternoon, as it went slowly homeward through half-a-dozen villages and paused, not for a very short time, occasionally before the village ale-houses, for the carrier to wash the dust out of his throat, as he said. Vet a most slovenly and dirty old vehicle it was, nevertheless - pleased and daubed up to the very awning of tarpaulin with one layer of mud on another; for the roads there, in those days, were of a most terrific nature, and old Toni Fletcher the carrier thought it totally waste of time to wash his cart, though he had a week to do it in, being of the opinion of Dean Swift´s servant, that it would soon want doing again. The very board 011 which his name was painted, as by law required, was so splashed over, that nobody was any the wiser for it; and the oil-horn, which contained the greasing for the wheels, and hung dangling at the side of one of the said wheels, was so encrusted with repeated layers of mud, that a very animated dispute might have been held as to the fact of its being a horn at all. That it was for the purpose of lubricating the cart axles, you could see by the quill end of a great stout turkey´s feather sticking up out of it, and partly keeping open the lid. The cart was drawn by a sturdy bay horse, whoso shaggy heels were also loaded with the mud of the roads, and 110 small quantity of the same abundant article bung on his sides and in his long inane, which was of pale tawny hair,as if it had been faded by the sun. The horse, which was, moreover, what is called a bald-faced one, that is, had the greater part, end one eye, white, was as remarkable a looking beast as you could chance to we. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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