Robert Seymour

Alfred Crowquill

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Seymour's Humorous Sketches: Comprising Eighty-Six Caricature Etchings, Illustrated in Prose and Verse (1888)

"[...]long his path with ex-cite-ment and de-light: he look-ed for-ward to no ob-sta-cle to stop him in his ca-reer, and he pur-su-ed his way re-joic-ing. The Ogress's Castle. How-e-ver, as the day grew on, he slack-en-ed his pace, for the un-ac-cus-tom-ed fa-tigue be-gan to tell up-on his frame; so at last he threw him-self up-on the grass, and look-ed up-wards to the blue sky, and watch-ed the flee-cy clouds pur-sue each o-ther a-cross the bound-less ex-panse of the hea-vens. As he lay, half dream-ing, he thought he heard some-thing like the roll-ing of thun-der: he lis-ten-ed with great-er at-ten-tion, un-til[...]".

The Giant Hands

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Gooroo Simple

The Giant Hands: Or, The Reward Of Industry. Alfred Crowquill--1856

Alfred Crowquill

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