The Fools' Pence, and Other Narratives of Every-Day Life
by Charles Benjamin Tayler (9781150403040)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 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 books for free. Excerpt: THE PASSWOKD. ' The Precious Blood of Christ.' -- 1 Peter i. 19. WO soldiers were strolling along tmder the noble trees which partly surround the Alameda at Gibraltar. Their duties for the day were over, and they were quietly conversing together, as they walked, enjoying the grateful shade, and the pleasant breezewhich blew freshly from the sea. They were both young men, frank and intelligent. Although they had already been associated with many of the corruptions to which a military life is exposed, the influence of their early home-training was still strong upon them, and they had been drawn to one another by a fellow-feeling on many subjects. ' This is a beautiful place,' said Angus Fletcher, ' and I am greatly taken with it. I had long wished to see foreignparts, and I have had my wish; but after all, Singleton, there is no place like one's own home. It's quite true, at least I find it to be true to my own feeling, what the poet Burns, once a farm-labourer like myself, has said -- " Their groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o'green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the long yellow broom." ' ' I feel much like you, my friend,' said Singleton. ' I longed to see foreign lands, and I am not disappointed, but pleased and gratified with all that I have seen. What an awful grandeur there is about this huge pile of rock and how soft and bright are the flowers and fruits around But among all these strange and beautiful trees and flowers, these hedges of geraniums, and that grove of orange trees wit...

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