Chantry House
Chantry House
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ntlefolks nowadays can say their letters. It was well for
me, since books with a small quantity of type, and a good deal of
frightful illustration, beguiled many of my weary moments. You may
see my special favourites, bound up, on the shelf in my bedroom.
Crabbe's Tales, Frank, the Parent's Assistant, and later, Croker's
Tales from English History, Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, Tales of
a Grandfather, and the Rival Crusoes stand pre-eminent--also Mrs.
Leicester's School, with the ghost story cut out.
Fairies and ghosts were prohibited as unwholesome, and not unwisely. The one would have been enervating to me, and the other would have been a definite addition to Clarence's stock of horrors. Indeed, one story had been cut out of Crabbe's Tales, and another out of an Annual presented to Emily, but not before Griff had read the latter, and the version he related to us probably lost nothing in the telling; indeed, to this day I recollect the man, wont to slay the harmless cricket on the hearth, and in a sto
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