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Miss Emily found her lavish customer interesting, but demoralizing. "Run away with him, Jean," she said. "I am not used to Croesuses. He won't leave anything to sell, and then what shall I say to the people who want to buy?" "Shut up your shop and go to tea with us at Chevy Chase," Derry suggested. Emily smiled at him. "It is good of you to ask me, but I can't.
The usual "chevy" was going on there, with more spirit than usual, perhaps, because the darkness allowed of practical jokes and surprises, and offered great facilities for paying off old grudges with secrecy and despatch, and as the Doctor had come to the door of the greenhouse, and was looking on, the players exerted themselves still more, till the "prison" to which most of one side had been consigned by being run down and touched by their fleeter enemies was filled with a long line of captives holding hands and calling out to be released.
This was the first person put to death in England for his religious belief, and the occasion was the origin of the epitaph, "Well done, good and faithful servant." Conspiracies were quite common in those days, one of them being organized by Harry Percy, called "Hotspur" because of his irritability. The ballad of Chevy Chase was founded upon his exploits at the battle of Otterburn, in 1388.
Of their effect on his younger listeners he says, "To some of us that long past experience remains the most marvellous and fruitful we have ever had. Emerson awakened us, saved us from the body of this death. It is the sound of the trumpet that the young soul longs for, careless of what breath may fill it. Sidney heard it in the ballad of 'Chevy Chase, and we in Emerson.
"Yet shall not Scots nor Scotland say But I will vengeance take, And be revenged on them all For brave Earl Percy's sake." This vow the king did well perform After on Humble-down; In one day fifty knights were slain With lords of great renown. And of the rest, of small account, Did many hundreds die: Thus endeth the hunting in Chevy Chase Made by the Earl Percy.
"Well, get even with him," said a Tommy, standing by, "and go and fight one of 'is battles for him." A judge presiding over a court in Washington, D.C., was administering the oath to a boy of tender years, and to him put the following question: "Have you ever taken the oath? Do you know how to swear, my boy?" Whereupon the lad responded: "Yes, sir. I am your caddie at the Chevy Chase Club."
You are a lucky pup: a handsome wife, a bouncing boy, and six horses! Where's the stable?" "In the rear. I keep only two stablemen; one to take care of the horses and one to act as groom. I'm off. I've a cracking good hunter, if you'd like a leg up. We'll all ride out to Chevy Chase Sunday. By- by, till lunch." Mr.
Huge antlers of deer, which might have been trophies of the hunting of Chevy Chace, were ranged around the walls, interspersed with the stuffed skins of badgers, otters, martins, and other animals of the chase.
Her tiny head was thrown back, and her large blue eyes were full of mingled wonder and defiance. As we entered the little witch flapped her kerchief at us, and shooed as though we were two of the intrusive fowl whom she was wont to chevy out of the house.
"Chevy Chase," of which Sir Philip Sidney said it would move him like the blast of a trumpet, is one of the most ancient; but, according to Hallam, it relates to a totally fictitious event. The ballad of "Robin Hood" had probably as little origin in fact. Towards the close of the fifteenth century, a mighty revolution took place.
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