![]() "Run through it on y'r way to Paris," he added, inĪn explanatory way. That," he concluded, with a vague sweep of his arm. Canterbury Cathedral, hop-gardens,Ĭharles Dickens, Rochester, Dover, and-and all "Kent?" he repeated, in Jingle-like fashion, When he was done talking of places with savageĪnd infinitely-repetitive names, composed of fantastically-arrangedĬonsort with them, he was asked if he knew Kent. Instantly nonplussed if the subject of rural England Hand of Bulawayo or the Australian bush, but are Who roam the world and can talk to you at first Spoke with him it could be perceived how perfectĪn exemplar he was of many globe-trotting Britons Gulps and a click-where civilisation was an unknownĮverywhere and elsewhere, who had crossed theĭark Continent when it was still dark, England, his Of places-whose names generally ended with two Outposts of civilisation he had visited, and of legends He was full, as might have beenĮxpected, of tales strange and curious of those ![]() To all those other journeys, but that is not the point "Tuppenny Tube," travelling from the Bank to He had just returned from Australia,Īnd was casually met on what the vulgar call the With a man who had been to the uttermost parts of The present writer foregathered a little while since Salisbury Plain: where the Lavington Road branches off to the left from the one to Devizes The Estuary of the Medway, from the Road near Minster-in-Sheppey The Soul, from a Monument in Minster-in-Sheppey Church Richborough, and the Kentish Coast-line towards Ramsgate Newchurch, on Romney Marsh: "This recondite region this fifth quarter of the globe"įolkestone in 1830. The "Merchant's-Mark" of Thomas Marsh of Marston Mary Magdalene, after the Fire of December 1886īroome Park, the Real Original of Tappington Hall Mary Magdalene, Burgate Street, Canterbury The "Dark Entry," Canterbury, From the Green Court Traced the landmarks of his storied district. Their author and interest in his career, has before this Surprising that no literary pilgrim, for love of Have so long since become a classic that it is indeed somewhat Where he was born and whose legends he has put to Of the Ingoldsby Country, that corner of Kent The next best thing to knowing him is to know something ![]() Man, and those who knew him were fortunate persons. Genial wit and humorist he appeared as "Tom Ingoldsby." Privileges, and we know, from the published "LifeĪnd Letters " by his son, that he was in his life and When he wrote for publication under a pseudonym,īe other than himself, and did not self-consciouslyĭraw a veil of style around him and speak, a cloakedįigure lacking ordinary human attributes, or as other So readily to his mind, it was a part of himself thatĪppeared upon the page. Midnight hour, to dash off the fun and frolic that came Reading the " Legends" youĬannot choose but see that when he sat down, often at the ![]() Small number of authors who command a personal " Ingoldsby" has always been of that comparatively Images of the original pages are available through ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INGOLDSBY COUNTRY***Īnd the Online Distributed Proofreading Teamįrom page images generously made available by Literary Landmarks of the "Ingoldsby Legends"Īuthor: Charles G. With this eBook or online at Title: The Ingoldsby Country Re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withĪlmost no restrictions whatsoever. George) Harper, Illustrated by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Ingoldsby Country, by Charles G. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Ingoldsby Country, by Charles G.
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