The Copybook

Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.

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© Țetcu Mircea Rareș, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

St Nicholas and the Unjust Judge Clay Lane

Trouble comes to the town of Myra when Imperial soldiers are despatched to put down a revolt.

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Photo by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Lost for Words Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.

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© Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R29818, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Machinery of State John Buchan

Human beings should not be frantic cogs spinning away in the Government’s factory of Progress.

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By Gillis Hafström (1841-1909), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

A Confiscation of Property Anne Brontë

Arthur Huntingdon discovers that his wife is planning to leave him, and take their little boy with her.

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© Thomas Quine, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cuthbert and the Sorrowful Ravens Clay Lane

The Northumbrian monk was touched by two thieving birds who repented of their misdeeds.

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By Vincent van Gogh, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Cuthbert and the Barley Reivers Clay Lane

Bede is reminded of another great Christian saint when St Cuthbert shoos some troublesome crows from his barley crop.

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