. Tom Browns school-days . CHAPTER II THE VEAST And the King commandeth and forbiddeth, that from henceforthneither fairs nor markets be kept in Church-yards, for the honour of —Statutes 13 Edw. /., stat. ii., cap. vi. S that venerable and learned poet (whosevoluminous works we all think it the correctthing to admire and talk about, but dontread often) most truly says, the child isfather to the man; a fortiori, therefore, hemust be father to the boy. So, as we aregoing, at any rate, to see Tom Brown throughhis boyhood, supposing we never get any further (which, if youshow a proper s
. Tom Browns school-days . CHAPTER II THE VEAST And the King commandeth and forbiddeth, that from henceforthneither fairs nor markets be kept in Church-yards, for the honour of —Statutes 13 Edw. /., stat. ii., cap. vi. S that venerable and learned poet (whosevoluminous works we all think it the correctthing to admire and talk about, but dontread often) most truly says, the child isfather to the man; a fortiori, therefore, hemust be father to the boy. So, as we aregoing, at any rate, to see Tom Brown throughhis boyhood, supposing we never get any further (which, if youshow a proper sense of the value of this history, there is noknowing but what we may), let us have a look at the life and [21]. TOM BROWNS environments of the child, in the quiet country village to whichwe were introduced in the last chapter. Tom, as has been already said, was a robust and combativeurchin, and at the age of four began to struggle against the yokeand authority of his nurse. That functionary was a good-hearted,tearful, scatter-brained girl, lately taken by Toms mother, MadamBrown, as she was called, from the village school to be trained asnurserymaid. Madam Brown was a rare trainer of servants,and spent herself freely in the profession; for profession it was,and gave her more trouble by half than many people take to earna good income. Her servants were known and sought after formiles round. Almost all the girls who attained a certain placein the village school were taken by her, one or two at a time, ashousemaids, laundrymaids, nurserymaids, or kitchenmaids, andafter a year or twos drilling were started in life among the neigh-boring families, with good principles and wardrobes. One ofthe result
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