Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780428625757

Excerpt from Ballads: And Other Poems Divide the adjoining fields. Across the road are gates, which are opened by troops of chil dren. The peasants take off their hats as you pass; you sneeze, and they cry, God bless you. The houses in the villages and small er towns are all built of hewn timber, and for the most part painted red. The floors of the taverns are strewn with the fragrant tips of fir boughs. In many villages there are no taverns, and the peasants take turns in receiv ing travellers. The thrifty housewife shows you into the best chamber, the walls of which are hung round with rude pictures from the Bible; and brings you her heavy silver spoons, an heirloom, to dip the curdled milk from the pan. You have oaten cakes baked some months before; of bread with anise-seed and coriander in it, or perhaps a little pine bark. 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.