Produced by Juliet Sutherland and Sankar Viswanathan JACKANAPES By JULIANA HORATIO EWING Illustrated by Amy Sacker BOSTON L. C. PAGE and COMPANY (INCORPORATED) COPYRIGHT, 1895 BY JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER I. "Last noon beheld them full of life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay." CHAPTER II. "And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse." CHAPTER III. "If studious, copie fair what time hath blurred, Redeem truth from his jawes." CHAPTER IV. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." CHAPTER V. "Then, said he, 'I am going to my Father's.'" CHAPTER VI. "Und so ist der blaue Himmel groesser als jedes Gewoelk darin, und dauerhafter dazu." * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS "BUT SHE REMEMBERED THE LITTLE MISS JESSAMINE" _Frontispiece_ TITLEPAGE "NEXT DAY JANE HAD HEARD MORE" AT THE POND "JACKANAPES COULD HARDLY SLEEP FOR SPECULATING" "HE WAS DISPOSED TO TALK CONFIDENTIALLY" THE GENERAL'S GRANDSON THE BOY TRUMPETER TAILPIECE FINIS * * * * * "_If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a Jackanapes, never off_!" KING HENRY V, Act 5, Scene 2. * * * * * JACKANAPES CHAPTER I. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms--the day Battle's magnificently stern array! The thunder clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse:--friend, foe,--in one red burial blent. Their praise is hymn'd by loftier harps than mine: Yet one would I select from that proud throng. ---- to thee, to thousands, of whom each And one as all a ghastly gap did make In his own kind and kindred, whom to teach Forgetfulness were mercy for their sake; The Archangel's trump, not glory's, must awake Those whom they thirst for.--BYRON.