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Title: Jackanapes

Author: Juliana Horatio Ewing

Illustrator: Amy Sacker

Release Date: January 13, 2007 [EBook #20351]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Juliet Sutherland and Sankar Viswanathan

JACKANAPES

By

JULIANA HORATIO EWING

Illustrated by

Amy Sacker

BOSTON

L. C. PAGE and COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

COPYRIGHT, 1895

BY

JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
"Last noon beheld them full of life,
Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay."

CHAPTER II.
"And he wandered away and away
With Nature, the dear old nurse."

CHAPTER III.
"If studious, copie fair what time hath blurred,
Redeem truth from his jawes."

CHAPTER IV.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his friends."

CHAPTER V.
"Then, said he, 'I am going to my Father's.'"

CHAPTER VI.
"Und so ist der blaue Himmel groesser als jedes
Gewoelk darin, und dauerhafter dazu."

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ILLUSTRATIONS

"BUT SHE REMEMBERED THE LITTLE MISS JESSAMINE" _Frontispiece_

TITLEPAGE

"NEXT DAY JANE HAD HEARD MORE"

AT THE POND

"JACKANAPES COULD HARDLY SLEEP FOR SPECULATING"

"HE WAS DISPOSED TO TALK CONFIDENTIALLY"

THE GENERAL'S GRANDSON

THE BOY TRUMPETER

TAILPIECE

FINIS

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"_If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her
favors, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a
Jackanapes, never off_!"

KING HENRY V, Act 5, Scene 2.

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JACKANAPES

CHAPTER I.

Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,