The Works of Charles Kingsley
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. THE CHALK-CARTS. "T7"HAT do you want to know about next? More about the caves in which the old savages lived,- how they were made, and how the curious things inside them got there, and so forth....
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. THE CHALK-CARTS. "T7"HAT do you want to know about next? More about the caves in which the old savages lived,- how they were made, and how the curious things inside them got there, and so forth. Well, we will talk about that in good time: but now- What is that coming down the hill ? Oh, only some chalk-carts. Only some chalk-carts ? It seems to me that these chalk carts are the very things we want; that if we follow them far ertough- I do not mean with our feet along the public road, but with our thoughts along a road which, I am sorry to say, the public do not yet know much about- we shall come to a cave, and understand how a cave is made. Meanwhile, do not be in a hurry to say, " Only a chalk-cart," or only a mouse, or only a dead leaf. Chalk-carts,like mice, and dead leaves, and most other matters in the universe are very curious and odd things in the eyes of wise and reasonable people. Whenever I hear young men saying " only" this and " only" that, I begin to suspect them of belonging, not to the noble army of sages- much less to the most noble army of martyrs,- but to the ignoble army of noodles, who think nothing interesting or important but dinners, and balls, and races, and backbiting their neighbours; and I should be sorry to see you enlisting in that regiment when you grow up. But think - are not chalk-carts very odd and curious things ? I think they are. To my mind, it is a curious question how men ever thought of inventing wheels; and, again, when they first thought of it. It is a curious question, too, how men ever found out that they could make horses work for them, and so began to tame them, instead of eating them, and a curious question (which I think we shall never get answered) when the first horse-tamer lived, and in what country. And a ve...
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