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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT PART I SHOWING HOW HE BUILT HIS HOUSE AND HIS WIFE MOVEb INTO IT. My worthy friend, A. Gordon Knott, From business snug withdrawn, Was much contented with a lot That would contain a Tudor cot 'Twixt twelve feet square of garden-plot, And twelve feet more of lawn. He had laid business on the shelf To give his taste expansion, And, since no man, retired with pelf, The building mania can shun, Knott, being middle-aged himself, Resolved to build (unhappy elf ) A mediaeval mansion. He called an architect in counsel; I want, said he, a ? you know what, (You are a builder, I am Knott, ) A thing complete from chimney-pot Down to the very grounsel; Here's a half-acre of good land; Just have it nicely mapped and planned And make your workmen drive on; Meadow there is, and upland too, And I should like a water-view, D' you think you could contrive one ? (Perhaps the pump and trough would do, If painted a judicious blue?) The woodland I 've attended to; He meant three pines stuck up askew, Two dead ones and a live one.] A pocket-full of rocks 't would take To build a house of freestone, But then it is not hard to make What nowadays is the stone; The cunning painter in a trice Your house's outside petrifies, And people think it very gneiss Without inquiring deeper; My money never shall be thrown Away on such a deal of stone, When stone of deal is cheaper. And so the greenest of antiques Was reared for Knott to dwell in: The architect worked hard for weeks In venting all his private peaks Upon the roof, whose crop of leaks Had satisfied Fluellen; Whatever anybody had Out of the common, good or bad, Knott had it all worked well in; A do...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217029681 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021702968X |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 210 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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