Blister Jones
Autor: FOOTE, JOHN TAINTOR
Nakladatelství:
Books LLC
ISBN: 9781443206235
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7201 Kč
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6546 Kč
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Excerpt: BLISTER JONES By JOHN TAINTOR FOOTE ILLUSTRATED BY JAY HAMBIDGE INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT 1913 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY I dedicate this, my first book, with awe and the deepest affection, to MulvaneyMowgilKim, and all the wonderful rest of them. J. T. F. A certain magazine, that shall be nameless, I read every month. Not because its pale contents, largely furnished by worthy ladies, contain many red corpuscles, but because as a child I saw its numbers lying upon the table in the ""library,"" as much a part of that table as the big vase lamp that glowed above it. My father and mother read the magazine with much enjoyment, for, doubtless, when its editor was young, the precious prose and poetry of Araminta Perkins and her ilk satisfied him not at all. Therefore, in memory of days that will never come again, I read this old favorite; sometimesI must confess itwith pain. It chanced that a story about horsesaye, race horseswas approved and sanctified by the august editor. This story, when I found it sandwiched between Jane Somebody's Impressions Upon Seeing an Italian Hedge, and three verses entitled Resurgam, or something like that, I straightway bore to ""Blister"" Jones, horse-trainer by profession and gentleman by instinct. ""What that guy don't know about a hoss would fill a book,"" was his comment after I had read him the story. I rather agreed with this opinion and sohere is the book. THE THOROUGHBRED Lead him away!--his day is done, His satin coat and velvet eye Are dimmed as moonlight in the sun Is lost upon the sky. Lead him away!--his rival stands A calf of shiny gold; His masters kneel with lifted hands To this base thing and bold. Lead him away!--far down the past, Where sentiment has fled; But, gentlemen, just at the last, Drink deep!--_the thoroughbred_! CONTENTS I Blister II Two Ringers III Wanted--a Rainbow IV Salvation V A Tip in Time VI Tr?s Jolie VII Ole Man Sanford VIII Class IX Exit Butsy X The Big...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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