. "For example," says her brother in
an article on her methods, "in the story of
'Jackanapes' the law of Principality is very
clearly demonstrated. Jackanapes is the one
important figure. The doting aunt, the
weak-kneed but faithful Tony Johnson, the
irascible general, the punctilious postman, the
loyal boy-trumpeter, the silent major, and the
ever-dear, faithful, loving Lollo,--all and
each of them conspire with one consent to
reflect forth the glory and beauty of the
noble, generous, recklessly brave, and gently
tender spirit of the hero 'Jackanapes.'" As to
the laws of repetition and contrast: "Again and
again is the village green introduced to the
imagination. It is a picture of eternal peace
and quietness, amid the tragedies of our
ever-changing life which are enacted around
it."

JACKANAPES

JULIANA HORATIA EWING

CHAPTER I

Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,
Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay,
The midnight brought the signal sound of strife,
The morn the marshaling in arms--the day
Battle's magnificently stern array!
The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent
The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent,
Rider and horse,--friend, foe,--in one red burial blent.

Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine:
Yet one would I select from that proud throng.

* * * * *

To thee, to thousands, of whom each
And one and all a ghastly gap did make
In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach
Forgetfulness were mercy for their sake;
The Archangel's trump, not glory's, must awake
Those whom they thirst for.
--BYRON

Two Donkeys and the Geese lived on the Green, and all other residents of
any social standing lived in houses round it. The houses had no names.
Everybody's address was "The Green," but the Postman and the people of
the place knew where each family lived. As to the rest of the world,
what has one to do with the rest of the world when he is safe at home on
his own Goose Green? Moreover, if a stranger did come on any lawful
business, he might ask his way at the sh