Alice-for-Short (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Morgan, William de) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Alice-for-Short In the January in which this story begins there was a dense fog in London, and a hard frost. And there was also a little girl of six in a street in Soho, where the fog was as thick and the frost as hard as anywhere else in the metropolis. The little girl was bringing home the beer from the Duke of Clarence´s Head at the corner to an old house that had been built in the days of her great-great-grandfathers. She did not like bringing it; and though her eyes were blue and she was a nice little girl, she could almost have found it in her heart to stop and drink some of it on the way. But she was afraid of her mother. So she staggered on with her large jug, and nobody offered to help her. Her great-great-grandfathers had been better off than she was. At any rate in their days, however cold it was, there was no fog to speak of; certainly not one like this. In those days she might not have been choked with coughing in addition to frozen finger tips. She might have had chilblains, but her eyes would not have smarted as they did now. She might have been able to see more than her own small length in front of her; and then perhaps she would have detected in good time a boy with a red nose and a red comforter to console it who was making a slide on the pavement, and would not have been run into by that boy and his circle of friends who were assisting him in making that slide. Would these boys´ great-great-grandfathers have behaved as ill as their great-great-grandsons did when they had overwhelmed a defenceless little girl six years old, and knocked her over and rolled upon her, and smashed her glorious jug in three pieces, and spilt her precious nectar in the gutter? I hope not. I trust they would have helped her tenderly to her feet, and subscribed among themselves to make good the damage. These boys did no such thing. 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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