Download or read book Old Shorter Houses and Gardens (Classic Reprint) written by Annie Kendrick Walker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Shorter Houses and Gardens If you' pause, bewildered, at each beckoning path, the whole garden, beneath the weight of a century, assumes the air of repose, of age; it no longer pleads: it commands. But through the gardens is heard the echo of a ponderous coach as it draws up at White Hall in a Seventeenth Century May. A coach of that day made a stir through London streets, and as the arrival of this particular coach was attended by a great deal of state, a piquant memoir could, no doubt, have its beginning the very moment the short flight of steps is lowered by the footmen. It is the coach of Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor, and as the door opens 'for a stately gentleman to descend there can be no longer a cause for indecision: this memoir will have its beginning in a coach. 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.