Excerpt from Sketches in Lavender, Blue, and Green The old landlord talked, and I harkened, the while we both sat drinking thin ale from earth enware mugs, late one summer's evening, on the bench that runs along the wall just beneath the latticed windows; and during the many pauses, when the Old landlord stopped to puff his pipe in Silence and lay in a new stock of breath, there came to us the murmuring voices of the Atlantic; and Often, mingled with the pompous roar of the big breakers farther out, we would hear the rippling laugh Of some small wave that, maybe, had crept in to listen to the tale the land lord told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.