Downland Echoes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Downland Echoes There were two principal types in the village. First, men with thin faces and noses and dark hair and eyes - eyes that were set near each other and did not easily look you straight in the face. Perhaps - indeed, most likely - their ancestors were Britons; Britons who were never altogether driven westward by the invader. The other men were fair of hair and fresh faced - faces inclining to roundness, with big noses and light eyes. Anglo-saxon these. Men that got louder and more quarrelsome than the dark-faced men when drunk - if so be that they drank, but men you would sooner quarrel with, all the same-that is, if your quarrel were not to be a lasting one. 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.