S. Baring-Gould

A reader of history in its various epochs in different countries, comes upon eccentric individuals and extraordinary events, lightly passed over, may be, as not materially affecting the continuity of history, as not producing any seriously disturbing effect on its course. Such persons, such events have always awakened interest in myself, and whe...

Jean del' Peyra was standing scraping a staff to form a lance-shaft. The sun shone hot upon him, and at his feet lay his shadow as a blot.He was too much engrossed in his work to look about him, till he heard a voice call from somewhere above his head—""Out of the way, clown!""Then there crashed down by him a log of wood that rolled to his feet ...