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Ever Working, Never Resting; A Memoir of J. Legg Poore
Ever Working Never Resting A Memoir of J Legg Poore Author:John Corbin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: . t. 16] The Isle Of Wight. CHAPTER II. GOING FROM HOME. THE ISLE OF WIGHT -- A JANUARY MORNING -- JOURNEY TO ROCHESTER -- " TROY-TOWN ACADEMY " -- SISTER'S LETTER -- CANTERBURY -- SHREWSBURY -- THREE YEARS' EXPERIENCE. TOURISTS who visit the Isle of Wight are familiar with its varied natural scenery. Some of them never tire in talking of its cliffs, its chines, its bays, its landslip, its Needles, its many-coloured sands, its leafy landscapes and shady lanes -- beautified as they are in spring and summer with wild roses, honeysuckle, and clematis; and enriched as they are in the autumn with blackberries and other wild ripening fruits, with their various hues of red, scarlet, and purple. But few visitors know how the Isle of Wight looks in the dull and stormy days of January. It is to one of these days I must now introduce my readers. In the cold of that wintry morning, long before it was light, the little family at Carisbrooke was astir with unusual excitement. It was the morning on which John was going forth, to leave all that was dear to him in the home of his boyhood, to try his fortune among persons whom he had never seen. By six o'clock onthat dark morning, Mr. Poore, the father, with his eldest son by his side, was on the road leading from Carisbrooke to Ryde -- that being only the first stage in what, to the son, was to be a long and eventful journey. But here I will let John tell his own story. I have already quoted from the letter which he wrote to his mother on his forty-third birthday. It was natural that, in taking a review of his life -- which was the object of that letter -- he shou...« less