Excerpt from English Hearts and English Hands: Or, the Railway and the Trenches When the author of these pages first began to speak to the earliest groups of stragglers who came to seek a labouring man's lodging in Beckenham, it was little thought Whereunto this would grow. It was little expected that two or three hundred navvies could take up their abode in a country village for two winters, and, instead of spreading moral contagion, set a good example to many of its inhabitants. It was little sup posed that memory would ...
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Excerpt from English Hearts and English Hands: Or, the Railway and the Trenches When the author of these pages first began to speak to the earliest groups of stragglers who came to seek a labouring man's lodging in Beckenham, it was little thought Whereunto this would grow. It was little expected that two or three hundred navvies could take up their abode in a country village for two winters, and, instead of spreading moral contagion, set a good example to many of its inhabitants. It was little sup posed that memory would be crowded, as it is, with incidents and recollections of deep and hallowed, as well as of warm and manly friendship on the part of some of them, who, having witnessed a good confession, have finished their course with joy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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