Author: Arthur Locker

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781330521908

Excerpt from Sir Goodwin's Folly, Vol. 2 of 3: A Story of the Year 1795 Tradespeople took down their shutters, and business began. The landlord of the Light Horseman stood at his door in his shirtsleeves, with one eye on his potman, who was cleaning out the bar, and the other on the columns of the Public Advertiser, which he held in his hand. Occasionally he raised both his visual organs for the purpose of surveying mankind, as mankind appeared over the way. Either something he saw, or something he did not see, seemed to surprise him; he raised his shaggy grey eyebrows with an air of astonishment, and addressed his potman in these words: "Why, Peter, they've still got their shutters up over at the barber's shop. What's the reason of that?" "I can't say, master," replied Peter, leaning on his broom, as he looked out of the door. "They're mostly as regular as clockwork. Their 'prentice sweeps out his hair jest as I'm a sweeping out my sand and sawdust. But I ain't a seen nobody this morning." "'Tis strange," observed the landlord. "Whatever his other faults may be, Chigwood's usually an early bird in the morning." "Sarah Jane says she dreamt about wild beastesses," remarked Peter. "She woke up in a flight, and heard the barber's bears growling as plain as if they was out on the pavement. She says she heard wheels and woices a whispering." 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.