I enjoyed this story and would read it again. They style gets bogged down somewhat in old English wording. If you are looking for easy reading it is not the book for you. The story is for children (to be read to or those with exceptional reading skills) and I enjoyed it a great deal, when a child. It is a piece of literature that is defined by older prose. Now may God rest his spirit! Near eighty year he was afoot and about, and ever getting but now he's on the br He had a strong hand to get, and a hard hand to keep withal, had Appleyard the archer. I would go a mighty wager there is a bushel of gold therein. I would I could light upon't! When ye lose an old friend, Master Richard, the best consolation is to heir him. "He may have had three score pounds put by. There was a bed, with a blue cover, a cupboard, a great chest, a pair of joint-stools, a hinged table in the chimney corner, and hung upon the wall the old soldier's armoury of bows and defensive armour. And there they laid him on the floor, out of regard for the mattress, and sought, as best they might, to straighten and compose his limbs.Īppleyard's house was clean and bare. They took up the old archer, and carried him between them into his house, where he had dwelt alone.
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