“Time is.”
Then it said,—
The servant, not knowing the secret of the monks, failed to awake them as he had been ordered to do, and down came the figure with a fearful crash; and England has remained without any other wall of brass than enters into an Englishman’s composition to this day.
CHAPTER XI.
LETTERS AND EXCURSIONS.
An English Skylark.—Letter from George Howe.—Tommy’s Account of his Nottingham Adventure.—Glastonbury Abbey.—The Beginning of the English Church.—St. Joseph of Arimathæa and the Glastonbury Thorn.—Story of St. Dunstan and the Devil.
MASTER LEWIS set apart a day at Oxford for leisure, writing, and rest.
In the morning, after breakfast, the Class took a walk to the suburbs, and rested on some wayside seats overlooking the Thames.