The book Shanty the Blacksmith a Tale of Other Times was written by author Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha), 1775-1851 Here you can read free online of Shanty the Blacksmith a Tale of Other Times book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Shanty the Blacksmith a Tale of Other Times a good or bad book?
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" Mrs. Margaret hinted that every man had not the ingenuity of her nephew ; adding, however, that old Shanty was as worthy and God-fearing a man as any on the moor. " I do not deny it, " replied Mr. Dyraock, "but what has worth and God-fearing to do with my plough. I have been trying in vain to make him understand what I want done, and am come to the resolution of going myself, taking off my coat, and working with him ; I should make a better blacksmith in a week, than he has in forty years. " ...10 siiANTY THE blacksmith; Mrs. Margaret lifted up lier hands and eyes, and then fetching a deep sigh, " That I should hav'e lived to hear that, " she exclaimed; " the last representative of the house of Dymock proposing to work at a blacksmith's forge !'' *' And why not? Mrs. Margaret, " replied the nephew, " does a gentleman lower himself when he works merely for recreation, and not for sor- did pelf; you have heard of Peter the Great?" *' Bless me, nephew, " replied the spinster, bri- dling, " where do you think my ears have been all my life, if I never heard of Peter the great?" *' You know then, that he worked with his own hands at a blacksmith's forge, " returned the ne- phew.
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