{"product_id":"2940013538030","title":"JACKANAPES DADDY DARWIN'S DOVECOT AND OTHER STORIES","description":"JACKANAPES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,\u003cbr\u003e  Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay,\u003cbr\u003e  The midnight brought the signal sound of strife,\u003cbr\u003e  The morn the marshalling in arms--the day\u003cbr\u003e  Battle's magnificently stern array!\u003cbr\u003e  The thunder clouds close o'er it, which when rent\u003cbr\u003e  The earth is covered thick with other clay,\u003cbr\u003e  Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent,\u003cbr\u003e  Rider and horse:--friend, foe,--in one red burial blent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine:\u003cbr\u003e  Yet one would I select from that proud throng.\u003cbr\u003e  ----to thee, to thousands, of whom each\u003cbr\u003e  And one as all a ghastly gap did make\u003cbr\u003e  In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach\u003cbr\u003e  Forgetfuluess were mercy for their sake;\u003cbr\u003e  The Archangel's trump, not glory's, must awake\u003cbr\u003e  Those whom they thirst for.\u003cbr\u003e                              --BYRON.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo Donkeys and the Geese lived on the Green, and all other residents of\u003cbr\u003eany social standing lived in houses round it. The houses had no names.\u003cbr\u003eEverybody's address was, \"The Green,\" but the Postman and the people of\u003cbr\u003ethe place knew where each family lived. As to the rest of the world,\u003cbr\u003ewhat has one to do with the rest of the world, when he is safe at home\u003cbr\u003eon his own Goose Green? Moreover, if a stranger did come on any lawful\u003cbr\u003ebusiness, he might ask his way at the shop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of the inhabitants were long-lived, early deaths (like that of the\u003cbr\u003elittle Miss Jessamine) being exceptional; and most of the old people\u003cbr\u003ewere proud of their age, especially the sexton, who would be ninety-nine\u003cbr\u003ecome Martinmas, and whose father remembered a man who had carried\u003cbr\u003earrows, as a boy, for the battle of Flodden Field. The Grey Goose and\u003cbr\u003ethe big Miss Jessamine were the only elderly persons who kept their ages\u003cbr\u003esecret. Indeed, Miss Jessamine never mentioned any one's age, or\u003cbr\u003erecalled the exact year in which anything had happened. She said that\u003cbr\u003eshe had been taught that it was bad manners to do so \"in a mixed\u003cbr\u003eassembly.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070114906352,"sku":"2940013538030","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013538030_p0.jpg?v=1763582530","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013538030","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}