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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 65
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2.—Year After Year. By The Author Of * P...
friend and a sensible man of the world , makes his appearance upon the sceneand , by judicious management , combined with the
influ-, ence of a young and pretty wife , finally persuades Gray to return to civilized habits , and open the hall once more to his equals .
The love of brother and sister grows with their growth . Katherine , indeed , " livesmovesand has her being" in Gray ; sees and knows
, , nothing beyond or beside him , and is devoted to him heart and soul . In one of their botanical rambles the following scene occurs : —
sides our We path of went whi lay ch on up were a in brook silence covered which a with - littl came e wood way along : . the It the brook was bott a leaped om misty of a over autumnal narrow the little valley day led , , and the ges
garlands of rock which over it composed . At a little its distance bed , and up the this red ding berries le was of a cleared the hriony space hung , where in
black in a former dry spot fall among charcoal the had underwood been burned . Thi , and s bare whi circl ch still e stood remained at the a top round of a , bank , and beneath it a footpath wound down the side of the dell at the top of
which there , appeared we were now as we standing came . to Just the below top a party us , and of at wandering the foot of artisans this little , tinkers hill ,
donkeys and chairmenders which composed , as appeared part b of y their the materials train . loaded on the backs of the two " This path ht to be stopped" said Gray ; " they all steal wood as they
oug , walk along , as a matter of course . " looking " But at they the orn bare am black ent the lock p s lace of to the the children amount , the of the lean damage dog , the done group , " said made I ,
of by the ragged latter men however and women soon , attracted the projecting a different burthen kind s of of the notice donkeys . He . was One a the efforts weak company beast to climb , almost , but the one hidden steep , gained , ascent under half after the his hei load his ght , comrade and of the seemed hill , which . to The be had man making soon who , with useless drove all
animal him urged , straining him on its by weak the limbs most and savage receiving blows the and blow curses s on , and its the outstretched miserable muscles " Holloa , was ! " a cried piteous spectacl " a littl e indeed e ity . friendwould not be out of the way . "
The man looked up Gray , saw , us , and began p , hoping , for a shilling directly . " Lord , your honour , he is the laziest beast—it ' s all his cunning—I am the pitifullest
master " It ' s to well dumb that things his own that op ever inion was can' seen t be . " asked , " said Gray . " and " It ' hard s a desperate work getting hot this day , cross " said creature the gipsy up , the not hill attending ; but if to 1 had this the remark price ,
of " onl I' y ll hal not f pay a pint you of for ale sparing at the top him , I , " would said G not ray hu . rry " Spare him . " him because he is
your own beast . " in " a May great the passion flesh of he me fell fall upon off the my animal own bones , cud , gelling if I do ! him " cried , while the he man bit , and his
own Now under Gray lip grew for fury angry . also . " Hold ! I tell you ; I won't see such cruelty . The animal cannot stir . " habitual deference to bod
wishing was possessing Again obliged first the rank to himself man vent and paused itself money dead b , y and but , some and it then not was means the from out , so any of he donkey decrease began be of and moaning anger then : himself cried the any passion out , and to y
a Gray hundred to shoot feet it . under " Shoot the , it ground , sir , throug ; shoot h poor the it , head I say . , 1 and ; wish I'll it carry were dead the , load and
myself ' " Say . " it again , " said Gray , and I will . " ¦ _«* ago " , I before tell you ever do I wasted then , " cried thistles the on man it . " , " and I wish it had been clone a year VOL . I . r
Notices Of Books. 65
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 65
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/65/
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