Identifier: halfpastbedtime00bash (find matches)
Title: Half-past bedtime
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Bashford, H. H. (Henry Howarth), Sir, 1880-1961
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Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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one. The candle had burnt away.Cuthbert was back again in the ordinary world. Hesaw Beardy Ned looking at him gravely. Now you know, he said, why Im happy. Cuthbert rose to his feet. I must be going home, he said. Theyll bewondering where Ive been.3 Beardy Ned nodded. Well, good night, he said. Good night, said Cuthbert. He climbed the bank. But on the top of the bank he turned round for amoment and looked down again at Beardy Ned. Hewas still sitting there with Liz on his knees, and Cuthbert Beardy Ned saw him stoop and give her a kiss. Then he began tosing very softly the queer song that he had made up : The wickedest girl there was,The wickedest girl there is,The wickedest girl there ever will beIs my young daughter Liz. In between the things we know,Touch and handle, taste and see, Lies the land where lovers goAt their lifes end quietly. There, in that untroubled place,There, with eyes amused, they scan, Cradled still in time and space,This, the infant world of man. THE MAGIC SONG
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VI THE MAGIC SONG AIOUT a month after Cuthbert had been luckyenough to save Beardy Neds little girl, theweather grew so hot that all the people in thetown became rather discontented. It is always easierfor people in towns to become discontented than it isfor other people, because instead of fields to walk onthey have only pavements ; and instead of hills to lookat they have only chimneys ; and instead of bean-flowersto smell they have only dust-bins and the stale air thattrickles down the streets. So the men in the ironworkswere discontented because they thought that the men whoowned the ironworks didnt give them enough money ;and the men in the cotton-mills were discontentedbecause they thought that the men who owned thecotton-mills made them work too hard ; and the girlsin Mr Josephs refreshment shops thought him a cruelold beast; and the policemen thought that nobodyloved them. Also, the men who owned the ironworks thought thattheir men were greedy ; and the men who owned thecotton

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