Tales of the Long Bow

Tales of the Long Bow

Tales of the Long BowTHESE tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible...
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Author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith),1874-1936
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Language: English
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Tales of the Long Bow

Tales of the Long Bow

$33,623.38 $6.99

Tales of the Long Bow

$33,623.38 $6.99
Author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith),1874-1936
Format: eBook
Language: English

Tales of the Long Bow

THESE tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, impossible to read about. Did the narrator merely say that they happened, without saying how they happened, they could easily be classified with the cow who jumped over the moon and the more introspective individual who jumped down his own throat. In short, they are all tall stories; and though tall stories may also be true stories, there is something in the very phrase appropriate to such a topsy-turvydom; for the logician will presumably class a tall story with a corpulent epigram or a long-legged essay. It is only proper that such impossible incidents should begin in the most prim and prosaic of all places, at the most prim and prosaic of all times, and apparently with the most prim and prosaic of all human beings. The place was a straight suburban road of strictly-fenced[4] suburban houses on the outskirts of a modern town. The time was about twenty minutes to eleven on Sunday morning, when a procession of suburban families in their Sunday clothes were passing decorously up the road to church. And the man was a very respectable retired military man named Colonel Crane, who was also going to church, as he had done every Sunday at the same hour for a long stretch of years. There was no obvious difference between him and his neighbours, except that he was a little less obvious. His house was only called White Lodge and was, therefore, less alluring to the romantic passer-by than Rowanmere on the one side or Heatherbrae on the other. He turned out spick and span for church as if for parade; but he was much too well dressed to be pointed out as a well-dressed man. He was quite handsome in a dry, sun-baked style; but his bleached blond hair was a colourless sort that could look either light brown or pale grey; and though his blue eyes were clear, they looked out a little heavily under lowered lids. Colonel Crane was something of a survival. He was not really old; indeed he was barely middle-aged; and had gained his last distinctions in the great war. But a variety of causes had kept him true to the traditional type of the old professional soldier, as it had existed before 1914; when a small parish would have only one colonel as it had only one curate. It would be quite unjust to call him a[5] dug-out; indeed, it would be much truer to call him a dug-in. For he had remained in the traditions as firmly and patiently as he had remained in the trenches. He was simply a man who happened to have no taste for changing his habits, and had never worried about conventions enough to alter them. One of his excellent habits was to go to church at eleven oclock, and he therefore went there; and did not know that there went with him something of an old-world air and a passage in the history of England. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 69185
Author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Release Date: Oct 20, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company
Publication Date: 1925
Publisher Country: United States

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