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Washington Irving
Bracebridge Hall (Illustrated Edition)
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0252-2
Table of Contents
"The chivalry of the Hall prepared to take the Field."—Frontispiece.
PREFACE
The success of “OLD CHRISTMAS” has suggested the republication of its sequel “BRACEBRIDGE HALL,” illustrated by the same able pencil, but condensed so as to bring it within reasonable size and price.
THE HALL.
The ancientest house, and the best for housekeeping in this county or the next, and though the master of it write but squire, I know no lord like him.
MERRY BEGGARS.
The reader, if he has perused the volumes of the Sketch Book, will probably recollect something of the Bracebridge family, with which I once passed a Christmas. I am now on another visit at the Hall, having been invited to a wedding which is shortly to take place. The squire’s second