Lanterna Rally

Author: Hezekiah Butterworth

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781230041636

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. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...of armor, " this is the armor of the mighty Guy." "The mighty Guy!" said Tommy Toby, with large eyes, "will you please tell us who he was?" The antique portress stared as though amazed at such a confession of ignorance. "We are from America," said Tommy. Master Lewis smiled at being included in the uninstructed "we." "Guy was a giant." Tommy's interest grew. "He was the great Earl of Warwick: a valiant soldier who slew so many people that he became melancholy, and retired to Guy's Cliff, as it is now called, and there lived alone in a cave for thirty years. He was nine feet high." "And what is that?" said Tommy Toby, pointing to an immense pot. "That," said the antique lady, " was the mighty Guy s porridge pot." "How much does it hold?" "It holds one hundred and twenty gallons, and weighs eight hundred pounds." "Did the mighty Guy drink as much porridge as that at every meal?" asked Tommy, his curiosity taking a wider circle with each new statement. "I don't know; all of these things happened long, long before I was born." "That" said the lady, " is a rib of the Dun Cow." "What kind of a cow was that?" asked Tommy. "It was a cow which the mighty Guy killed on Dunsmore Heath. It weighs nine pounds and a half." "The cow?" "No, the rib." The lady led the party in a procession which she dramatically headed through the lower rooms of the principal building. She showed them the superb old baronial hall; the drawing-rooms, magnificent with tapestries and inlaid furniture; the pictures by Vandyke. Then in an awesome manner she suddenly stopped, and...