The Boy in Grey and Other Stories and Sketches (Classic Reprint)
| Preis: | 19.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Kingsley, Henry) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Boy in Grey and Other Stories and Sketches It was Prince Philarete´s tenth birthday, and if you will find the "Court Circular" for that date, you will read what beautiful presents he had. First, a great brass top, or, as Mr. Jenkins called it, a gyrotrope, which spun for two hours and forty-six minutes, making all the time a noise like the loudest railway whistle, only louder; which was a charming toy. Next, a Noah´s Ark, in which the elephant was as big as a Newfoundland dog, and would serve for a rantoone; and Noah was as big as your sister´s largest doll. All the animals had cloth hides, coloured exactly like nature. If you wound up the brown bear with a watch-key, he would run about for five minutes (that was done by little wheels on his toes), and growl (that was done by a bellows in his inside). And the rarer and more recently discovered ones, such as the Wandoodle and Teezyweezy, and the Ramtifoozle, had only just been made, under the joint superintendence of Mr. Frank Buckland and Mr. Tegetmeier. There was another great fact about this Noah´s Ark of his. Professor Huxley had superintended the models of all the extinct animals, even to that of the Xylopodotherium, the gigantic armadillo, with a wooden leg, recently discovered in the drift of the Appalachian mountains, near Millidgeville. The Professor would not have taken that trouble for every one. But he knew that this Prince could dree out the weird of the Boy in Grey, and so he did it for Mm. For the Professor talks much to the Boy in Grey, and the Boy in Grey loves him. "That was a fine Noah´s Ark, you say; "he must have been glad." We will see about that presently. 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.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
