Contributions to Punch Etc
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781151174284
Paperback|9781151174284
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1903. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... WAITING AT THE STATION WE are amongst a number of people waiting for the Blackwall train at the Fenchurch Street Station. Some of us are going a little farther than Blackwall--as far as Gravesend--some of us are going even farther than Gravesend--to Port Phillip in Australia, leaving behind the patrice fines and the pleasant fields of Old England. It is rather a 'queer sensation to be in the same boat and station with a party that is going upon so prodigious a journey. One speculates about them with more than an ordinary interest, thinking of the difference between your fate and theirs, and that we shall never behold these faces again. Some eight-and-thirty women are sitting in the large hall of the station, with bundles, baskets, and light baggage, waiting for the steamer, and the orders to embark. A few friends are taking leave of them, bonnets are laid together, and whispering going on. A little crying is taking place;--only a very little crying, --and among those who remain, as it seems to me, not those who are going away. They leave behind them little to weep for: they are going from bitter cold and hunger, constant want and unavailing labour. Why should they be sorry to quit a mother who has been so hard to them as our country has been 1 How many of these women will ever see the shore again, upon the brink of which they stand, and from which they will depart in a few minutes more? It makes one sad and ashamed too, that they should not be more sorry. But how are you to expect love where you have given such scanty kindness 1 If you saw your children glad at the thoughts of leaving you, and for ever: would you blame yourselves or them? It is not that the children are ungrateful, but the home was unhappy, and the parents indifferent or unkind. You are in the wr...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151174284 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151174289 |
| Weight | 1.93 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.34 In |
| List Price | $37.21 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 604 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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