Subjects

Extracts from Literature

in The Copy Book

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King Alfred’s Lyre

Charles Dickens explains how King Alfred the Great overcame the Great Heathen Army in 878, with the help of a little music.

296

Waters of Strife

Master-sweep Grimes meets a woman who knows more about him than he feels comfortable with.

297

Bass, Bat and Bull

John Nyren tells us about one of cricket’s truly great batsmen, John Small.

298

The Gossip in Gavrillac

The simple folk of Brittany know what it means when a nobleman calls himself godfather to an unknown infant.

299

A Cricketer’s World

Leigh Hunt reflects on the civilising effect of the game of cricket.

300

Leg Glance

A sportsman and an officer lays a wager that he can make a trigger-happy Irishman go barefoot in public.