| A Boy's Ride Contributor(s): Zollinger, Gulielma (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421804492 ISBN-13: 9781421804491 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2005 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 264 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in leaf but the ash trees, and they were unfolding their buds. And along a bridle-path a few miles southwest of York a lad of fourteen was riding, while behind him followed a handsome deerhound. A boy of fourteen, at that age of the world, was an older and more important personage than he is to-day. If he were well-born he had, generally, by this time, served his time as a page and was become an esquire in the train of some noble lord. That this lad had not done so was because his uncle, a prior in whose charge he had been reared since the early death of his parents, had designed him for a priest. Priest, however, he had declined to be, and his uncle had now permitted him to go forth unattended to attach himself as page to some lord, if he could. |