The Fossil Bride

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Excerpt from The Fossil Bride: A Legend of Folkestone, and Other Verses A Legend of Folkestone. Gay Folkestone, though now such a flourishing town, Was, forty years since, of but little renown, The ostensible trade of the small population Was in fish, and their soles had a great reputation, But, besides catching fish, it was more than suspected, Other sources of lucre were far from neglected, And that many who seem'd merely fishing-smack skippers, Took a spell, now and then, in the fastest of clippers, But, whatever their traffic, it seem'd of a sort That kept revenue cruisers from rotting in port, And 1 heard of such bargains in things which elsewhere Were all of them costly, and some of them rare, The choicest Havanas, Brocades, and Bandanas, Gloves of Gallie extraction - The price a mere fraction - And Schnaps, neat from Holland, as Pat says, galore. Then, invitingly handy, Was the best of French Brandy, Maraschino, Noyau, And superb Curacoa, And, in stick pets of bottles, delicious Eau d'or, Such as Sardanapalus, Had he reign'd in our day, had uncork'd to regale us. 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.