This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...named Tom, Dick, and Harry, all merry and good-natured lads, though a little given to mischief. Their parents were very fond cf them; but it was a great grief to the Lady Mayoress that she had no daughter to be a companion to her during the long hours in which her husband was engaged in administering justice and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...named Tom, Dick, and Harry, all merry and good-natured lads, though a little given to mischief. Their parents were very fond cf them; but it was a great grief to the Lady Mayoress that she had no daughter to be a companion to her during the long hours in which her husband was engaged in administering justice and presiding at meetings. As soon as the boys were able to run about, it was found impossible to keep them much at home. Indeed, it was not desirable to do so, for they did their best to turn the Mansion-House into a perfect bear-garden, raising such a din that their worshipful father could scarcely hear himself making a speech, fighting with the pages, splashing mud over the silk stockings of the footmen, putting cobblers' wax on the chair of the Chief Clerk, laughing outright in the very wig of the Recorder, and so on--for boys will be boys, and these boys lived in a rude and unpolished age. So they were packed off every morning to the City of London School, and their mother sat sad and solitary in And of a great lady who in London did dwell. 117 the marble halls of the Mansion-House, and sighed over her crotchet-work that she would gladly exchange all this greatness for a little more domestic comfort and felicity. At last the dearest wish of her heart was fulfilled. One day the Lord Mayor was found too much agitated to attend to his duties; the suitors were sent about their business, the prisoners were all remanded for a week, the crier of the court was muffled with a pair of white kid gloves, the newsboys were forbidden to call out in the streets louder than a whisper, all traffic was stopped 118 They had one little daughter, a very nice girl, throughout the city, and the only vehicles allowed by the police to pass were the doctor's carriage and a ...
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