Windfalls

by A. G. Gardiner

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Excerpt: "I took a garden fork just now and went out to dig up the artichokes. When Jemima saw me crossing the orchard with a fork he called a committee meeting, or rather a general assembly, and after some joyous discussion it was decided nem. con. that the thing was worth looking into. Forthwith, the whole family of Indian runners lined up in single file, and led by Jemima followed faithfully in my track towards the artichoke bed, with a gabble of merry noises. Jemima was first into the show more breach. He always is..." show less

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jjmcgaffey 3,307 reviews

The same sort of (good, well-written, interesting) short essays as his previous two books. None of them particularly stand out in my mind, but I did enjoy the reading. However, this particular Project Gutenberg book has some serious editing problems - uncorrected scannos (tom for torn, for instance) and - each essay had a header image. The same header image - On Women and Tobacco - is used for three different essays, only one of which it belonged to. The errors were enough to - momentarily, but repeatedly - confuse and distract me, so my overall impression of the book is not as good as the previous two (which were much better edited). The writing is fine, it's just the editing that failed.

Nov 20, 2020

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