Pen Sketches, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Pen Sketches, Vol. 1 of 2: By a Vanished Hand From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins "Some thirty miles from Megalopolis, Miles also from the shrieking griding rail. On a high road where once the four-horse mail Flashed gaily past - so placed my cottage is: Boars merrily now the wind tall limes between, Which guard my quiet lawn, a triangle scalene. And you may see me, if you pass this way, Lean on my gate and look into the road, And listen to the skylark's joyous ode - Thoughtful, not oft cigarless. Will you say, Who wears that velvet coat, a trifle tattered, That curious cool straw hat which wind and rain have battered!" Yes, we have passed that way, and have entered the gate and received that hand-grasp, which, to quote Mortimer Collins himself, would "crush the paw of a hypocrite." We have walked some miles from the railway station on a broad, white road - the great Bath Road that stretches from London to Bath - have left Maidenhead Thicket a mile or two behind, and have arrived at a point where an old inn stands back from the road with its long line of stables, reminding us of the time when the "four-horse mail flashed gaily past." 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.