Randolph Gordon

Excerpt from Randolph Gordon: And Other StoriesI am sorry to record it, our county is a very big fellow on the map, and it is very celebrated for corn, cattle, and cheese, as the geography says, whose kindly alliteration helped me to escape the dire wrath of that odious governess of my sister's who first made study hateful to me when I was a little chap in the nursery; our county is picturesque, fruitful, and aristocratic, but it is a weathercock, as twirling and whirling and changing a girouette as the very fierce cock who sits on the top of our village church, looking as tremendous as the Gallic cock looks in alarmists' letters, but in reality is only innocently ready for squalls, as perhaps the Gallic cock is too, desperately as we vilify him.Our county is a weathercock, and changes its manners as a beauty her dresses, careful only of one thing - to be in the fashion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.