Yankee Gypsies
Yankee Gypsies
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He brought with him pins, needles, tape, andcotton-thread for my mother; jack-knives, razors, and soap formy father; and verses of his own composing, coarsely printed andillustrated with rude wood-cuts, for the delectation of the youngerbranches of the family. No love-sick youth could drown himself, nodeserted maiden bewail the moon, no rogue mount the gallows, withoutfitting memorial in Plummer's verses. Earthquakes, fires, fevers, andshipwrecks he regarded as personal favors from Providence, ...furnishingthe raw material of song and ballad. Welcome to us in our countryseclusion, as Autolycus to the clown in "Winter's Tale, "(1) we listenedwith infinite satisfaction to his reading of his own verses, or to hisready improvisation upon some domestic incident or topic suggested byhis auditors. When once fairly over the difficulties at the outset of anew subject his rhymes flowed freely, "as if he had eaten ballads, andall men's ears grew to his tunes. " His productions answered, asnearly as I can remember, to Shakespeare's description of a properballad, --"doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant themesung lamentably.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
He brought with him pins, needles, tape, andcotton-thread for my mother; jack-knives, razors, and soap formy father; and verses of his own composing, coarsely printed andillustrated with rude wood-cuts, for the delectation of the youngerbranches of the family. No love-sick youth could drown himself, nodeserted maiden bewail the moon, no rogue mount the gallows, withoutfitting memorial in Plummer's verses. Earthquakes, fires, fevers, andshipwrecks he regarded as personal favors from Providence, ...furnishingthe raw material of song and ballad. Welcome to us in our countryseclusion, as Autolycus to the clown in "Winter's Tale, "(1) we listenedwith infinite satisfaction to his reading of his own verses, or to hisready improvisation upon some domestic incident or topic suggested byhis auditors. When once fairly over the difficulties at the outset of anew subject his rhymes flowed freely, "as if he had eaten ballads, andall men's ears grew to his tunes. " His productions answered, asnearly as I can remember, to Shakespeare's description of a properballad, --"doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant themesung lamentably.
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