A Boy's Ride - Hardback - 9781421803494

It was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in leaf but the ash trees, and they were unfolding their buds. And along a bridle-path a few miles southwest of York a lad of fourteen was riding, while behind him followed a handsome deerhound. A boy of fourteen, at that age of the world, was an older and more important personage than he is to-day. If he were well-born he had, generally, by this time, served his time as a page and was become an esquire in the train of some noble lord. That this lad had not done so was because his uncle, a prior in whose charge he had been reared since the early death of his parents, had designed him for a priest. Priest, however, he had declined to be, and his uncle had now permitted him to go forth unattended to attach himself as page to some lord, if he could.

• | Author: Gulielma Zollinger
• | Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• | Publication Date: Feb 08, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1421803496
• | ISBN-13: 9781421803494