Barrage

1898 · 2307428 — New York: The Century Co 1898. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine lightly toned front hinge starting ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xi 321 pp. EXCERPT: "In the summer of the year 1777 a lad of about ten years clad in a suit of gray was playing in the high-walled garden of the Benedictine Asylum for Orphans in Paris. The sun was pleasant the birds sang overhead the roses were many for the month was June. A hundred lads were noisily running about. They had the look of being well fed decently clothed and kindly cared for. An old priest walked to and fro at times looking up from his breviary to say a pleasant word or to check some threatening quarrel. Presently he paused beside the boy who was at the moment intently watching a bird on a branch overhead. As the priest turned the boy had thrown himself on the grass and was laughing heartily. "What amuses thee my son" said the father. "I am laughing at the birds." "And why do they make thee laugh Fran The Century Co unknown books