November 22: “and joyntly cried to him to carry them”

Excerpted from Christopher Morley’s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure:

NOVEMBER 22, SUN. 1931

A Gentleman having led a company of children beyond their usual journey, they began to be weary, and joyntly cried to him to carry them; which because of their multitude he could not do, but told them he would provide them horses to ride on. Then cutting little wands out of the hedge as nagges for them, and a great stake as a gelding for himself, thus mounted Phancie put metall into their legs, and they came cheerfully home.

— THOMAS FULLER, The Holy State (1642)

I love that. That is charming. That’s the best thing about this “Book of Days for 1931” book. The entries are unexpected, and not always strictly inspirational (although some are). They are interesting … a commonplace book published.

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