Show NYES HISTORY OF CF ENGLAND introduction of the hyphen on endlish En elish soil THE ADVENT or OF THE ANGLES rude pada warrie Warr lori allio wiped Their ers on thy the ld belati atlon I ot of the pla pie mod t bality pro prominence of tho the S on copyright 15 5 J B lippiwcott company CUTTER III with the laud ng of Il engist and I 1 iloria gioi ia english li listort story really begins for cakars Ca Calo sars capture of the dritch isles wis wall of slight blight importance tm viewed in the light of fast rec receding eduig centuries there is little littie today in t lie he english character to remind ono cf c cx who was a volatile anil and epileptic IC emperor with massive and complicated features tho the rich warm blood of the ho roman does docs not mantle in tho the check of tho the Eng englishman lishin in of the ho present century to any malted degree tho the beugli illian aping the reserve and hauteur of boston is in fact the diametrical antipode of the int warm hearted aud and garlic imbued roman who revels in assal tion ion and gold carbons the beautiful daughter of hengist formed an alliance with Vortig om the I 1 royal foreman of great britain a plain man who was very popular in the alcoholic set and generally subject to violent lucid intervals inter vali which lasted until t it after breakfast but the cie saxons broke these up it is eaid and aad rowe rowena encouraged him in his efforts to become his hia own worst enemy and aad after two or three patent of wassail would get it him ina to give her another coia county lity or two until soon the he briton saw that tho the saxon sason had a mortgage on the throne and affre it was too late he said that immigration should have been restricted kent became the first saxon kingdom and in d r remained a powerful state for ever I 1 a eela century tary store more saxons now came und and brought with them yet other saxons with yet more children dogs doga vodka and thirst the breath ot of a saxon in a cucumber patch would mal ce a peck of pickles per moment the angles now dow come came also and registered at the leading ha chatelin I 1 destined to introduce the hyphen on english soil and plant the orchards on whose ancestral brandies branches should ultimately hang the anglo saxon race taij progenitors ot of the eminent 1 ii I I 1 of america let tha haughty purse proud american int in whose warm life curic I 1 on one may trace erwa the unmistakable strai strains of lich lorida of gold and trichinae tri chinie nile pame pailie A I 1 iv M THEY WIPED THEIR COAR E ard WHISKERS OS 04 trie THE Y TABLE CLOTS OTEL for one moment to gazo at al the co coarse arm features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors ce who sat up at nights drench drenching lug their souls in 9 a style of nepenthe that it is said amid would remove mot moths tan freckles and end political disabilities the seven states known as the saxon were formed in the sixth and seventh centuries and the rulers of these states were called bret valdas 11 or britain wielders wi eldera ethelbert Ethel berl king of kent was for 60 50 years and liked it fit first rate A very good picture is ill given iven here showing allowing the coronation of E Elii elbert copied fr from om an old tintype now in porse ion of an aged and somewhat t childish family in philadelphia iti who descended from ethelbert and have made no lie effort to conceal it for over years the british made inside a 4 stubborn resistance to the encroach ments of these course coarse people but it was ineffectual their prowess along with it a massive appetite and other liand land baggage BOCA overran the land of albion everywhere the rude mile warriors of northern europe wiped the dressing from their coarse red whiskers on tho the snowy tablecloth of the briton in west Wales Wailes oD manonia was tho in h orne bome of king arthur so no justly cele al 1 A 0 A aa captivates VORTIG Erx boated in bong anil and etory arthur was more interesting to the poet than the historian and probably y as a champion tham pion of dumall rights and a higher civilize tion stand in that great gala galaxy axy occupied by santa clans 9 and jakk jack tho the mant killer the danet danes or joined tho the angles angle also at this time and with the saxons spread terror anarchy and bommen drunks all over albion those who still claim that the angles were right angles are certainly ignorant of english history they obtuse angles and when bedtime came and they tried to walk a crack the historian in a spirit of mischief exclaims s that they were mostly a pack of isosceles try angles but liia this doubtless is mere badinage badIna gp aliey all savages and their religion was entirely unfit for publication socially they jiley were coarse and repulsive slaves d did id the housework and serfs each morning changed the straw bedding of the lord vid and drove the pigs out of the boudoir 7 the pig was tho the great social middle cass class between the serf sed and the the serf slept with the pig by day ird and the pig slept with the at and yet they were courageous to a degree the ale saxons saxon not the pigs they were fearless navigators and reckless warriors warr iora armed with their rude meat axes and andone one or two they would take something in the way of a tonic and march right up to the mouth month of the great thomas catapult or c r fall in the mon moat t with a courage that knew nol DO reeked not lot of danger I 1 foiw jita MCA kida christianity wa wai first prea elial n i great britain in 59 1 A D at I 1 hi it a i ol of gregory afterward pl 1 who by bobani e saw some BOBIC ang I 1 youths cip exposed clied fur sale balo in ia rome ih chy y were ato fellow and the gr i M man an pitied thou then bf land t the he ail religion was d 11 in II englad and wj s first to turn the a J age heart tom ard G GLI A augustine was v aai ery kindly receive by and invited up to tle house agu tin inet with gr great eat success tor for the kius king experienced religion and was baptized after which many of his subjects repented and accepted salvation on learning that it was free As AK many as in ono one day were converted and augustine was 1 nade made archbishop of canterbury on a small island in the thames ho be built a church dedicated to st peter chero v here now is wea minster abbey a prop prosperous erous sanctuary actuary BA entirely antii ely out of debt the hili history tory of the is out buo of murder arson rit pine argault aBi ault and battery breach of the peace e petty larceny and the embezzlement of the ene mys wife in egbert king of wessex and dike dake of handy gaff conquered oil all his fees boea and became absolute ruler of england land of the angles T taking liking charge of this angular kingdom he ha es thus the mighty country which now rules rule the world in some respects and which is ii so greatly improved socially since giuca those days two distinguished scholars schola alris flourished in the eighth ce century bedo bede and alcuin they at one cime attracted attention b by y be 1 4 I 1 5 r I 1 AUGUSTI KINDLY lied IVED ETl lELBERT kint OF kear HEN r ini ing able to read coarse clarsa P print rit ri t at sight bale wrote the tha ecclesiastical history ci of the angles it is out ot of print now alcuin was a native of yolk and v with it the aid of a lump of chalk and the side of a vacant barn could figure up things and add like everything students ent flocked to him front from all over the country and matriculated liy by the dozen if lie he tool took a fancy to a student he would take hun him away privately and show him how to read the first literary man mail of note was a monk of whitby named Ca Ci idmon edition who wrote poems on oil biblical subjects when lie he did not have to monk his works were greffly gre itly like those of mflton and especially especial Iv lili paradise lost it is said gildas was tio the fart historian storian lu of D britain rit and tle scathing remarks jacv about his fellow countrymen have never been by the most noreil ss of modern hi torian the book boa was highly interesting arl and it is a wonder that sonic some enter enterprise american publisher has not appropriate t it as the author is now extremely deau BILL NY |