All in a garden fair; the simple story of three boys ... - University Library

I90 ALL IN A GARDEN FAIR.
enough of them, make excellent barricades.
The Eevolution, in fact, devoured the whole
edition of the very book, to which—I do not
say—I do not know—to wdiich, perhaps, it
owed birth.'
' And not a single copy left ? ' said Claire.
' My daughter, there is not one. Nothing
remains of that unknown volume, unless, in-
deed, the memory of the Eevolution.'
Allen's eyes glowed.
!
' Oh ' he cried ;
could so move the world !
' And a poet of twenty- one !
' to think that a poet
' said Claire,
gazing with pride upon her father. She
knew that he had taken no ignoble part iu
the great revolutionary outbreak, but she
had never suspected him of being its prime
author.
Allen.
' Only three years older than myself,' echoed
'It may have been,' said this Tyrta3us of
Eevolution, trying to suppress the external
betrayal of pride, ' that this young man only