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Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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ining was bornhalf an hour before Mining, Brasig aMays appeals to her as the oldest J In the absence of their parents in the hay-field, the little ones put on theirgrandfathers best wig and their grandmothers Sunday cap, and danceand fiimp about, until they throw down the family money-jug and see it, withterror, break in pieces on the ground. How to get it mended I No other waythan to take it to the blacksmith ! But Uncle Brasig appears, and hope revives !They run to him with the broken jug, and beg him to get the blacksmith to mend it! Wow ! cries Brasig, what will stupid mankind think of next! Lining,youare the eldest; I thought you would know better ! And, Mining, stop crying, myown little pet, and next market-day I will buy you a new money-jug! Now,along with you into the house ! And so he gently pushes the little girls before him,and follows them, in one hand^the wig, and in the other the cap, as we see him herein Conrad Beckmanns charming picture. Friti Renters Ut mine Stromtid.
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BRASIG, LINING AND MINING. BRAY 161 BREAKING A STICK ries Nicholas Niekleby.-las Nicklehj (1838). -C. Dickens, Nicho- Bray (Vicar of), supposed by some to beSimon Aleyn, who lived (says Fuller) inthe reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI.,Mary, and Elizabeth. In the first tworeigns he was a protestant, in Marys reigna catholic, and in Elizabeths a, protestantagain. No matter who was king, SimonAleyn resolved to live and die the vicarof Bray (1540-1588). Others think the vicar was Simon Sym-onds, who (according to Ray) was an inde-pendent in the protectorate, a high church-man in the reign of Charles II., a papistunder James II., and a moderate churchmanin the reign of WiUiam III. Others again give the cap to one Pendle-ton. *** The well-known song was written byan officer in colonel Fullers regiment, inthe reign of George I., and seems to referto some clergyman of no very distant date. Braymore (Lady Caroline), daughter oflord Pitz-Balaam. She was to have mar-ried Frank Rochdale, but heari

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