In the year 1775, there stood upon the borders of Epping Forest, at a distance of about twelve miles from London-measuring from the Standard in Cornhill, ' or rather from the spot on or near to which the Standard used to be in days of yore-a house of public entertainment called the Maypole; which fact was demonstrated to all such travellers as could neither read nor write (and at that time a vast number both of travellers and stay-at-homes were in this condition) by the emblem reared on the roadside over against the house, which, if not of those goodly proportions that Maypoles were wont to present in olden times, was a fair young ash, thirty feet in height, and straight as any arrow that ever English yeoman drew. The Maypole-by which term from henceforth is meant the house, and not its sign-the Maypole was an old building, with more gable ends than a lazy man would care to count on a sunny day; huge zig-zag chimneys, ..

Media	Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug)
Vrijgegeven	26 december 2016
ISBN13	9781540885906
Uitgevers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pagina's	550
Afmetingen	152 × 229 × 28 mm · 725 g
Taal en grammatica	Engels

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