{"product_id":"2940014587594","title":"Hunting the Lions","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEGINS TO UNFOLD THE TALE OF THE LIONS BY DESCRIBING THE LION OF THE\u003cbr\u003eTALE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe trust, good reader, that it will not cause you a feeling of\u003cbr\u003edisappointment to be told that the name of our hero is Brown--Tom Brown.\u003cbr\u003eIt is important at the beginning of any matter that those concerned\u003cbr\u003eshould clearly understand their position, therefore we have thought fit,\u003cbr\u003eeven at the risk of throwing a wet blanket over you, to commence this\u003cbr\u003etale on one of the most romantic of subjects by stating--and now\u003cbr\u003erepeating that our hero was a member of the large and (supposed to be)\u003cbr\u003eunromantic family of \"the Browns.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA word in passing about the romance of the family. Just because the\u003cbr\u003eBrown family is large, it has some to be deemed unromantic. Every one\u003cbr\u003eknows that two of the six green-grocers in the next street are Browns.\u003cbr\u003eThe fat sedate butcher round the corner is David Brown, and the milkman\u003cbr\u003eis James Brown. The latter is a square-faced practical man, who is\u003cbr\u003elooked up to as a species of oracle by all his friends. Half a dozen\u003cbr\u003edrapers within a mile of you are named Brown, and all of them are shrewd\u003cbr\u003emen of business, who have feathered their nests well, and stick to\u003cbr\u003ebusiness like burrs. You will certainly find that several of the\u003cbr\u003ehardest-working clergymen, and one or more of the city missionaries, are\u003cbr\u003enamed Brown; and as to Doctor Browns, there is no end of them! But why\u003cbr\u003ego further? The fact is patent to every unprejudiced person.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, instead of admitting that the commonness of the name of Brown\u003cbr\u003eproves its owners to be unromantic, we hold that this is a distinct\u003cbr\u003eevidence of the deep-seated romance of the family. In the first place,\u003cbr\u003eit is probable that their multitudinosity is the result of romance,\u003cbr\u003ewhich, as every one knows, has a tendency to cause men and women to fall\u003cbr\u003ein love, and marry early in life. Brown is almost always a good husband\u003cbr\u003eand a kind father. Indeed he is a good, steady-going man in all the\u003cbr\u003erelations of life, and his name, in our mind at least, is generally\u003cbr\u003eassociated with troops of happy children who call him \"daddy,\" and\u003cbr\u003eregard him in the light of an elephantine playmate. And they do so with\u003cbr\u003egood reason, for Brown is manly and thorough-going in whatever he\u003cbr\u003eundertakes, whether it be the transaction of business or romping with\u003cbr\u003ehis children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut, besides this, the multitudinosity of the Browns cuts in two\u003cbr\u003edirections. If there are so many of them green-grocers, butchers, and\u003cbr\u003emilkmen--who without sufficient reason are thought to be unromantic--it\u003cbr\u003ewill be found that they are equally numerous in other walks of life; and\u003cbr\u003ewherever they walk they do so coolly, deliberately, good-humouredly, and\u003cbr\u003every practically. Look at the learned professions, for instance. What\u003cbr\u003ea host of Browns are there. The engineers and contractors too, how they\u003cbr\u003eswarm in their lists. If you want to erect a suspension bridge over the\u003cbr\u003eBritish Channel, the only man who is likely to undertake the job for you\u003cbr\u003eis Adam Brown, C.E., and Abel Brown will gladly provide the materials.\u003cbr\u003eAs to the army, here their name is legion; they compose an army of\u003cbr\u003ethemselves; and they are all enthusiasts--but quiet, steady-going, not\u003cbr\u003enoisy or boastful enthusiasts. In fact, the romance of Brown consists\u003cbr\u003every much in his willingness to fling himself, heart and soul, into\u003cbr\u003ewhatever his hand finds to do. The man who led the storming party, and\u003cbr\u003eachieved immortal glory by getting himself riddled to death with\u003cbr\u003ebullets, was Lieutenant Brown--better known as Ned Brown by his brother\u003cbr\u003eofficers, who could not mention his name without choking for weeks after\u003cbr\u003ehis sad but so-called \"glorious\" fall. The other man who accomplished\u003cbr\u003ethe darling wish of his heart--to win the Victoria Cross--by attaching a\u003cbr\u003ebag of gunpowder to the gate of the fortress and blowing it and himself\u003cbr\u003eto atoms to small that no shred of him big enough to hang the Victoria\u003cbr\u003eCross upon was ever found, was Corporal Brown, and there was scarcely a\u003cbr\u003edry eye in the regiment when he went down.","brand":"Good Reading","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070669111536,"sku":"2940014587594","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014587594_p0.jpg?v=1763612122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014587594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}