The Village of Mortimer

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Excerpt from The Village of Mortimer: And Other Poems In giving publicity to this little collection of Poems, it is perhaps necessary that some explanatory statement should be made respecting them and their appearance in type. With regard to the Poems themselves, it may be observed that they are the results of the musings of one whose education was of the most elementary character possible, indeed, so far as scholastic training is concerned, it may be pronounced to have been absolutely nil. He began work at the early age of eight years, and beyond the alphabet and acquiring a knowledge of the fact that two and two make four, has no distinct recollection of having learned anything during the few years it was his privilege to attend school. The fact is, owing partly to the harsh system in vogue in the schools at that time, and partly from his having been from his earliest infancy an ardent lover of nature and wild freedom, and strongly objecting to anything like restraint, he ever, particularly when the weather was fine, preferred roaming through the lanes and among the woods, watching the beautiful birds and listening to and ever charmed with their ravishing melodies, or rolling in the lovely green meadows among the cowslips and buttercups, and inhaling the delightful fragrance that ever comes (especially when newly rolled or rolled upon) from the beautiful herbage growing amid the young and tender grass, or paddling in the limpid, cooling stream on a hot summer's day, chasing the tadpoles or catching the minnows in the brook, or hauling up the "crawldabs" (crayfish), and - looking at the sun to see if it was time to return home. It would not have done to go too soon, as that would have suggested a difficulty on his arriving there, should he be interrogated respecting his untimely appearance, of course, if he happened to be late it did not so much matter, as he had invariably "been kept in." 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.