The book Sketches of English Character 2 was written by author Gore Catherine Grace Frances Here you can read free online of Sketches of English Character 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sketches of English Character 2 a good or bad book?
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— The children of the poor. — Who originated leap-frog, blindman's buff, and all other bois- terous diversions?-- The children of the poor. — Unobstructed by finery and frippery, they pursue the sports of childhood with child- hood's reckless impulses of joy. Instead of the tedious airing, smothered up in a nurse's lap, — instead of the monotonous saunter, handcuffed by a nurse's authority, — instead of the discipline of the school-room, the preventive physicking of the apothecary in- flicted u...pon their miserable rivals, the off- g5 130 THE LITTLE LORD. sets of pauper life bask in the sunshine or freshen in the shade. As if to counterbalance the cares of after- life, the little ragged urchins hunt their but- terflies in inconsiderate delight. A gallop on the tinker's donkey is a happier thing than the formal ride under the stiff docu- mentation of a family coachman or riding- master: nay, a swing on a gate is a hap- pier thing, or a see-saw across the carpenter's bench. Liberty must be a god-like blessing; or Spartans and Spaniards, Greeks and Cana- dians, the East and the West, the North and the South, would not fight for it as they do.
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