The Paper Cap. A Story of Love and Labor

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Amelia Barr

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2017

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Would they do so?

As I repeated the squire’s order, I fell naturally into the Yorkshire form of speech and it warmed my heart and set it beating high and fast.

Would the ‘Yorkshires’ still honor the charge Squire Annis had given them? Oh, how could I doubt it! England had been in some war or other, nearly ever since the squire’s charge, and the ‘Yorkshires’ had always been soon and solid in rushing to her help. It was not likely that in this tremendous struggle, they would either be too slow, or too cold. Not they! Not they! They were early at the van, and doubly welcome; and they are helping at this hour to fight a good fight for all humanity; and learning the while, how to become of the highest type of manhood that can be fashioned in this world. Not by alphabets and books, but by the crucial living experiences that spring only from the courses of Life and Death – divine monitions, high hopes and plans, that enlarge the judgment, and the sympathies, the heart and the intellect, and that with such swift and mysterious perfection, as can only be imparted while the mortal stands on the very verge of Immortality.

Very soon, now, they will come home bringing a perfect peace with them, then! how good will be their quiet, simple lives, and their daily labor, and their Paper Cap!

THE END

notes

1

The devil, a machine containing a revolving cylinder armed with knives or spikes for tearing, cutting, or opening raw materials.

2

An almost transparent material first made in Gaza, Palestine, from which it derived its name.

3

A white hat was the sign of an extreme Radical.

4

In 1867, during Lord Derby’s administration, it was made to include the artizans and mechanics, and in Gladstone’s administration, A. D. 1884, the Reform Bill was made to include agricultural and all day laborers.

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