More English Fairy Tales: (Joseph Jacobs Classics Collection)

by Joseph Jacobs and John Dickson Batten

Book Overview

Newtown, or Franchville, as 't was called of old, is a sleepy little town, as you all may know, upon the Solent shore. Sleepy as it is now, it was once noisy enough, and what made the noise was-rats. The place was so infested with them as to be scarce worth living in. There wasn't a barn or a corn-rick, a store-room or a cupboard, but they ate their way into it. Not a cheese but they gnawed it hollow, not a sugar puncheon but they cleared out. Why...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508920826
• ISBN13: 9781508920823
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"