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But he himself was quite content with the modest affairs of an infant colony, which even in its earliest days achieved, whether in its landscape or its life, a curiously English effect; as though an English midland county had somehow got loose and, drifting to the Southern seas, had there set up barring a few black aborigines, a few convicts, its mimosas, and its tree-ferns another quiet version of the quiet English life it had left behind.
We have now come to fourteenth-century literature, which begins to wear a more modern aspect. This book, written in the Midland dialect in 1303, discourses of the Seven Deadly Sins and the best ways of living a godly life. A careful inspection of the following selection from the Handlyng Synne will show that, aside from the spelling, the English is essentially modern.
Allport, "it is impossible that you can reconcile the interests of these two great companies on the same railway; we are always only second-best." Second-best certainly never suited the ambitious policy of the Midland, and so the offer was rejected, and their line to London made.
It was so painful to see the expression on the minister's face that Uncle Gilbert began to doubt the wisdom of the plan he was trying. Lucy became quite alarmed, and asked if they ought not to stop at one of the midland cities; but Uncle Gilbert said they could surely go on to Liverpool. "But we can't cross over to Ireland. Father could not possibly stand the trip," she said.
There I met my brother managers in the Irish railway world, and learned something of the other lines. The leading men at the Conference were Ilbery, Great Southern and Western; Cotton, Belfast and Northern Counties; Plews and Shaw, Great Northern; Ward, Midland Great Western; and Skipworth, Manager in Ireland of the London and North-Western.
Compare it, for example with Napoleon’s military road over the Simplon, and it will at once be seen how greatly it excels that work, not only in the constructive skill displayed in it, but also in its cost and magnitude, and the amount of labour employed in its formation. The road of the Simplon is 45 miles in length; the North Midland Railway is 72½ miles.
So I had the little journey from Knype to Bursley, and then the walk up Trafalgar Road, amid the familiar high chimneys and the smoke and the clayey mud and the football posts and the Midland accent, all by myself. And there was leisure to consider anew how I should break to my mother the tremendous news I had for her.
The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in the Midland Sea, and ready to spring upon Egypt or pounce upon Syria, or roar so as to be heard at Marseilles in case of need. To the eyes of the civilian the first-named of these famous fortifications is by far the most imposing.
Gillies, Sergt.-Major Watson, Private O. A. Wheeler, Private Young, Sergt. Jackes, Private M. Erickson, Private Kemp. Surveyor Scouts: Lieut Garden. Capt. French's Scouts: Trooper Cook. "A" Battery: Driver Jas. Stout, Gunner Fairbanks, Gunner Charpentier, Gunner Twohey. Midland Battalion: Lieut. Geo. Laidlaw, Lieut. Helliwell, Corp. Helliwell, Private Barton.
He told her she would have to help herself out with some of the fables, if she expected to fill her book, and she said she did not care for that, either, and probably it was just such things as this interview that drew attention to the play, and must have made it go like wildfire that first night in Midland.
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