Short Stories - Volume VI

Classic from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature language: English abstract: Plated Article Putting up for the night in one of the chiefest towns of Staffordshire I find it to be by no means a lively town. In fact it is as dull and dead a town as any one could desire not to see. It seems as if its whole population might be imprisoned in its Railway Station. The Refreshment Room at that Station is a vortex of dissipation compared with the extinct town-inn the Dodo in the dull High Street.[...]***A Poor Man's Tale of a Patent I am not used to writing for print. What working-man that never labours less (some Mondays and Christmas Time and Easter Time excepted) than twelve or fourteen hours a day is? But I have been asked to put down plain what I have got to say; and so I take pen-and-ink and do it to the best of my power hoping defects will find excuse.[...]***The Poor Relation's Story He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family by beginning the round of stories they were to relate as they sat in a goodly circle by the Christmas fire; and he modestly suggested that it would be more correct if John our esteemed host (whose health he begged to drink) would have the kindness to begin.[...]***Prince Bull Once upon a time and of course it was in the Golden Age and I hope you may know when that was for I am sure I don't though I have tried hard to find out there lived in a rich and fertile country a powerful Prince whose name was BULL.[...]***Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble - Once Mayor of Mudfog Mudfog is a pleasant town-a remarkably pleasant town-situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river from which river Mudfog derives an agreeable scent of pitch tar coals and rope-yarn a roving population in oilskin hats a pretty steady influx of drunken bargemen and a great many other maritime advantages.[...]***The Schoolboy's Story