Excerpt from The King Versus Wargrave Paddington Green, and half an eye can see that for a iong, long time most of it has been given up to the purposes of a burial-ground, and again given back to the living, ae a place for children to play ih. And for folk who have no work to do, or are past all work, to lounge and rest ih. But t'wse who know, those who can see ghosts in the brightest sunshine as well as in the gloom of a winter's night, are well aware that many ghosts walk abroad in Paddington Green. For many famous folk lived about the Green or sleep beneath its turf. There was a certain or, one should say, a reputed - prett Polly Perkins, who is associated with it in a pepu at and pleasing ballad, now almost forgotten save by old fogies who prefer the ditties of Old England to the new numbers of the modern music-hall. Pretty Polly Perkins may have been - probably was - a creature of the imagination. But Emma Lady Hamilton, who figured so largely in Nelsons life-story - and. Incidentally, in the life stories of several other people-was no creature of anybody's imagination, but a very real and substantial personage, and here, at a corner of the Green, she dwelt. Here too, with her, dwelt Greville, that Clerk of the Privy Council who turned his knowledge of many great and illus trious folk to such good account in that famous journal of his, which owed half its success to its stock of scandal. And here the immortal Sarah Siddons, greatest of all English actresses, had her link with Mother Earth and still keeps a tight grip upon it. In a reserved strip of lawn she sitfi. Throne er marble counterfeit presentment looking with glances upon the shabby shops of the Harrow Road. And further back, away in a corner at the old graveyard. Now turned into a playground for children, whosoever will seek may easily find an old-fashioned tomb. Set about with iron railings. 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.