More English Fairy Tales: (Joseph Jacobs Classics Collection) - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781508920823

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by Joseph Jacobs (Author)

Newtown, or Franchville, as 't was called of old, is a sleepy little town, as you all may know, upon the Solent shore. Sleepy as it is now, it was once noisy enough, and what made the noise was-rats. The place was so infested with them as to be scarce worth living in. There wasn't a barn or a corn-rick, a store-room or a cupboard, but they ate their way into it. Not a cheese but they gnawed it hollow, not a sugar puncheon but they cleared out. Why the very mead and beer in the barrels was not safe from them. They'd gnaw a hole in the top of the tun, and down would go one master rat's tail, and when he brought it up round would crowd all the friends and cousins, and each would have a suck at the tail.

Number of Pages: 164

Dimensions: 0.35 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN

Publication Date: March 17, 2015

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