The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn, by William Henry Hudson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn Author: William Henry Hudson Release Date: November 1, 2006 [EBook #19691] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAD MAN'S PLACK AND AN OLD THORN *** Produced by Susan Skinner, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net DEAD MAN'S PLACK AND AN OLD THORN BY W. H. HUDSON 1920 LONDON & TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO. CONTENTS DEAD MAN'S PLACK PREAMBLE I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII AN OLD THORN I II III POSTSCRIPT I II ILLUSTRATIONS DEAD MAN'S PLACK HAWTHORN AND IVY, NEAR THE GREAT RIDGE WOOD DEAD MAN'S PLACK DEAD MAN'S PLACK. PREAMBLE "The insect tribes of human kind" is a mode of expression we are familiar with in the poets, moralists and other superior persons, or beings, who viewing mankind from their own vast elevation see us all more or less of one size and very, very small.