My Uncle, the Clockmaker: A Tale (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Mary Botham Howitt

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ISBN 10 : 1330833120 ISBN 13 : 9781330833124

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Spanish juice? That old cart was a regular tantalier 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. Yet a most el evenly and dirty old vehicle it was, nevertheless splashed and daubed up to the very awning of tarpauling with one layer of mud on another; for the roads there, in those days, were of a most terrific nature, and old Tom 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 sservant, that it would soon want doing again. The very hoard on 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 turkeys 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 no small quantity of the same abundant article hung on his sides and in his long mane, which was of pale tawny hair, as if it had been faded by the sun. The horse, which was, moreover, what is called a baldfaced one, that is, had the greater part, end one eye, white, was as remarkable a looking beast as you could chance to see.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330833120
• ISBN 13: 9781330833124
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 191
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