Comic History of England

as of slight importance viewed in the light of fast-receding centuries. There is little to-day in the English ch

rked degree. The Englishman, aping the reserve and hauteur of Boston, Massachusetts, is, in fact, the diametrica

vals which lasted until after breakfast; but the Saxons broke these up, it is said, and Rowena encouraged him in his efforts to become his own worst enemy, and after two or three patent-pails-full of was

ROWENA CAPTIV

kingdom, and remained a powe

h yet more children, dogs, vodka, and thirst. The breath of a Sa

uce the hyphen on English soil, and plant the orchards on whose ancestral branches should u

d and trichinae-pause for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors, who sat up at night

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as the Saxon Heptarchy

, and the rulers of t

ain-wielders. Ethelbe

ty years, and lik

E KINDLY RECEIVED BY ET

m an old tin-type now in the possession of an aged and somewhat childish family i

ingrowing moustache receiving Augustine. They both seem pleased to form each other's acquaint

was ineffectual. Their prowess, along with a massive appetite and other hand baggage, soon overran the land of Albion. Everywher

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was more interesting to the poet than the historian, and probably as a champion of human rights and a

claim that the Angles were right Angles are certainly ignorant of English history. They were obtuse Angles, and when bedtime came and they tried to w

ousework, and serfs each morning changed the straw bedding of the lord and drove the pigs out of the boudoir. The pig was the great soc

. Armed with their rude meat-axes and one or two Excalibars, they would take something in the way of a tonic and march r

ance saw some Anglican youths exposed for sale in Rome. They were fine-looking fellows, and the good man pitied their

AINS A GREAT VICTORY OV

which many of his subjects repented and accepted salvation on learning that it was free. As many as ten thousand in one day were converted, and Augustine was made Archb

rapine, assault and battery, breach of the peace, pe

England (Land of the Angles). Taking charge of this angular kingdom, he established thus the mighty count

al History of the Angles. It is out of print now. Alcuin was a native of York, and with the aid of a lump of chalk and the side of a vacant barn could figure up things and add like ev

e poems on biblical subjects when he did not have to monk. His works were g

ng remarks made about his fellow-countrymen have never be

that some enterprising American publisher has not

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