The experiences of this shipwrecked family are thus happily characterized by the Spectator: They did sail in the tubs, and train zebras and ostriches for riding, and grow apples and pines in the same garden; and why shouldn't they?
Yonge, C. M.
The Little Duke.
Macmillan. 1.25
An account of the boyhood days of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy, vassal of Louis IV, one of the last of the degenerate line of Charlemagne.
Eleven Years of Age
Clothes for the back, books for the head: Read, and remember them when they are read.
Thackeray.