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The Rising Sun; A Serio-Comic Satiric Romance
The Rising Sun A Serio-Comic Satiric Romance Author:Eaton Stannard Barrett General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1807 Original Publisher: Printed for Appleyards Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Humor / General Juvenile Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR repri... more »nt 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 books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER 111. FARMER GILDRIG MARRIES. -- CHARACTER OF HI LADY. -- BIRTH OF A SON AND HEIR. -- MISMANAGEMENT OF STEWARD THREATENS TO PRODUCE CIVIL DISCORD. -- FARMER GIXDRIG'S BREACH OF PROMISE, AND ITS ALARMING EFFECTS ON THE STEN'ANTRY. Soon after Farmer Gildrig's succession, he married Charlotte, the daughter of one Muckel- burg, a neighbouring lord. Though not famed for superior beauty, she . was a most amiable, worthy, discreet, domestic young gentlewoman, in whoin malice itself could find no other fault, if fault it can be, than that of the most rigid economy. Whenever the clothes of the Lord's family were hung out to dry, after a washing day, there was not a bush which' did not bear testimony to her industry. Stockings and other paraphernalia were so patched and darned that, like the coat in Swift's Tale of a Tub, not afragment of the original was to be seen. In the incumbered situation of the manor, this conduct was certainly setting an example worthy of imitation; but those, who loved to pick flaws in coats, and rould not even let petticoats alone, would maliciously assert that she hoarded for her own private purse. But far be it from a work of this kiiul to brcome a vehicle of scandal, which would be an infringement on tea-table privilege) Penelope at her web, and the Roman matrons weaving garments of rich Tyrian die, would be equally subjects of ridicule to those who prefer...« less