ISBN: 9781153719018

Excerpt: ...somewhat misty through the years, barefoot in a grassy lane, with stick in hand, urging the gentle beast. There is a subtle persuasion in the junkman''s call. In the… Mehr…

Excerpt: ...somewhat misty through the years, barefoot in a grassy lane, with stick in hand, urging the gentle beast. There is a subtle persuasion in the junkman''s call. In these tones did the magician, bawling for old lamps, beguile Aladdin. If there were this morning in my lodging an unrubbed lamp, I would toss it from the window for such magic as he might extract from it. And if a fair Princess should be missing at the noon and her palace be skipped from sight, it will follow on the rubbing of it. The call of red cherries in the park-as you might guess from its Italian source-is set to an amorous tune. What lady, smocked in morning cambric, would not be wooed by such a voice? The gay fellow tempts her to a purchase. It is but a decent caution-now that Spring is here-that the rascal does not call his wares by moonlight. As for early peas this morning, it is Pan himself who peddles them-disguised and smirched lest he be caught in the deception-Pan who stamps his foot and shakes the thicket-whose habit is to sing with reedy voice of the green willows that dip in sunny waters. Although he now clatters his tins and baskets and cries out like a merchant, his thoughts run to the black earth and the shady hollows and the sound of little streams. I have wondered as I have observed the housewives lingering at their windows-for my window also looks upon the park-I have wondered that these melodious street cries are not used generally for calling the wares of wider sale. If a radish can be so proclaimed, there might be a lilt devised in praise of other pleasing merceries-a tripping pizzicato for laces and frippery-a brave trumpeting for some newest cereal. And should not the latest book-if it be a tale of love, for these I am told are best offered to the public in the Spring (sad tales are best for winter)-should not a tale of love be heralded through the city by the singing of a ballad, with a melting tenor in the part? In old days a gaudy... Charles S. Brooks, Books, Fiction and Literature, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153719018

Charles Stephen Brooks (1878-1934) was an American businessman and writer. He graduated from Yale in 1900 and worked as a member of his father's printing business in Cleveland, writing a … Mehr…

Charles Stephen Brooks (1878-1934) was an American businessman and writer. He graduated from Yale in 1900 and worked as a member of his father's printing business in Cleveland, writing a few articles for various magazines. His published works include: Journeys to Bagdad (1915), There's Pippins and Cheese to Come (1917), Chimney-Pot Papers (1919), Like Summer's Cloud (? ), Luca Sarto (1920), Hints to Pilgrims (with Florence Minard) (1921), Frightful Plays! (1922), Charles Stephen Brooks (1878-1934) was an American businessman and writer. He graduated from Yale in 1900 and worked as a member of his father's printing business in Cleveland, writing a few articles for various magazines. His published works include: Journeys to Bagdad (1915), There's Pippins and Cheese to Come (1917), Chimney-Pot Papers (1919), Like Summer's Cloud (? ), Luca Sarto (1920), Hints to Pilgrims (with Florence Minard) (1921), Frightful Plays! (1922), Wappin' Wharf (1922), A Thread of English Road (1924), Roundabout to Canterbury (1926), The Tragedy of Josephine Maria (1931) and A Window at the Inn (1934). Books, Fiction~~General, ThereS-Pippins-and-Cheese-to-Come~~Charles-Stephen-Brooks, 999999999, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come, Charles S. Brooks, 1153719010, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153719018

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