ISBN: 9780217130837

Well do I, Hugo Gottfried, remember the night of snow and moonlight when first they brought the Little Playmate home. I had been sleeping-a sturdy, well-grown fellow I, ten years or so as… Plus…

Well do I, Hugo Gottfried, remember the night of snow and moonlight when first they brought the Little Playmate home. I had been sleeping-a sturdy, well-grown fellow I, ten years or so as to my age-in a stomacher of blanket and a bed-gown my mother had made me before she died at the beginning of the cold weather. Suddenly something awoke me out of my sleep. So, all in the sharp chill of the night, I got out of my bed, sitting on the edge with my legs dangling, and looked curiously at the bright Well do I, Hugo Gottfried, remember the night of snow and moonlight when first they brought the Little Playmate home. I had been sleeping-a sturdy, well-grown fellow I, ten years or so as to my age-in a stomacher of blanket and a bed-gown my mother had made me before she died at the beginning of the cold weather. Suddenly something awoke me out of my sleep. So, all in the sharp chill of the night, I got out of my bed, sitting on the edge with my legs dangling, and looked curiously at the bright streams of moonlight which crossed the wooden floor of my garret. I thought if only I could swim straight up one of them, as the motes did in the sunshine, I should be sure to come in time to the place where my mother was-the place where all the pretty white things came from-the sunshine, the moonshine, the starshine, and the snow. And there would be children to play with up there-hundreds of children like myself, and all close at hand. I should not any longer have to sit up aloft in the Red Tower with none to speak to me-all alone on the top of a wall-just because I had a crimson patch sewn on my blue-corded blouse, on my little white shirt, embroidered in red wool on each of my warm winter wristlets, and staring out from the front of both my stockings. It was a pretty enough pattern, too. Yet whenever one of the children I so much longed to play with down on the paved roadway beneath our tower caught sight of it he rose instantly out of the dust and hurled oaths and ill-words at me-aye, and oftentimes other missiles that hurt even worse-at a little lonely boy who was breaking his heart with loving him up there on the tower. Books, Fiction~~General, Red-Axe~~Samuel-Rutherford-Crockett, 999999999, The Red Axe, S.R. Crockett, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, 0217130836, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217130837

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 illustra… Plus…

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. 1898. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LVI HELENA, PRINCESS OF PLASSENBURG There was, however, deadly work yet before the men of Plassenburg. We found, indeed, that the townsfolk were with us almost to a man. The guild train-bands gathered and mustered at their halls. The guards at the city gates fraternally turned their arms to the ground. ''The Prince will restore your ancient liberties,'' I cried. And the people shouted: ''Prince Karl of Plassenburg and our ancient liberties!'' Then we made our way up the street by different routes to the Wolfsberg. There was little fighting till we arrived under those vast and gloomy walls. The Black Riders had disappeared within. Those worst tools of grim tyranny had early withdrawn themselves, knowing that small mercy would be shown them by the people if once the Wolfsberg were taken. But the common soldiers of the fighting rank, sons and brothers of the women of Thorn, tore off the badge of the bloody Dukes, and with loud shouts marched with us as comrades. But when we came before the walls, and with sound of trumpet and loud shouts summoned the Wolfsberg to surrender, a discharge of musketry from the castle, and the determined faces of a multitude of defenders showed us conclusively that all was not yet over. It was no use wasting men in attacking the great pile of buildings with the force at our disposal. We had men in plenty, but for breaching we needed the cannon left behind by these swift forces, which, marching day and night, had arrived in the very nick of time before the walls of Thorn. Nevertheless, it was not the fate of the Wolfsberg to be taken by Lazy Peg and her compeers. These ponderous pieces of ordnance were presently being dragged through the swamps and over the brickdust barrens of the borderlands, and it might be three or four da... Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Books, Fiction and Literature, The red axe Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 0217130836

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ISBN: 9780217130837

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