Lanterna Rally

Author: G. Castle Smith

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781230009230

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ..."Ah! that's just it--he's not nice; and people don't like to be thought like other people that aren't nice. That's why I didn't quite like saying it after I had said it," explained Burnie, getting a little red. "I'm sure you are not like him really, only just a tiny little wee bit in the face." "Does he come here?" pursued Dorothy. "Yes;--comes and drinks here a great deal," said Burnie with a heavy sigh. "I wish he didn't. I wish father wouldn't have him. But mother says if you keep a tavern you must let any one come in and drink who likes. I'll never keep a tavern when I'm grown up, for that reason." "Does Uncle Steve like him?" asked Dorothy. "I dunno--he's never said; but I know J don't," said Burnie with decision. "I used to call him 'the wicked man' when I was little; and now, do you know," he said confidentially, laying down his big knife and looking earnestly into Dorothy's face, "if at night I hear his voice, and know that he's downstairs in the bar-parlour, I feel uncomfortable. I can't rest. I don't feel, when mother kisses me and says, ' Angels guard you, Burnie, ' as if angels could come in the same place where he is." "Oh dear I" said Dorothy under her breath; "what does he do to make you feel like that?" "He swears," said Burnie; "he gets tipsy; he's cruel to his donkey; he frightens little children coming home from school in the dark; I've heard he steals pennies from other men; and he's so sly he does a lot of all these bad things without people knowing. He's cruel to his poor little donkey when he thinks nobody's looking--oh how I've seen him beat it and kick it!--and he frightens the children when...