A Humorous History of England
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Charles Harrison
In addition to writing this history of Cumberland County, Charles H. Harrison has written the books Salem County: A Story of People (The History Press), Growing a Global Village: The Story of Seabrook Farms (Holmes & Meier) and Tending the Garden State (Rutgers University Press). He also has written a number of articles about New Jersey and its people for Trailer Life, Planning, New Jersey Monthly and South Jersey magazines. Harrison and his wife reside in a 150-year-old house in Woodstown. Original photographs for this book were taken by Stephan A. Harrison of Pitman. Stephan was a photographer for Today's Sunbeam in Salem County.
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A HUMOROUS
HISTORY OF ENGLAND
TOLD AND PICTURED
BY
C. HARRISON
Published by
WARRICK & BIRD,
4, Nile Street, London, N.1.
1920.
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BOADICEA.
Preface Arms and the man
was Virgil’s strain; But we propose in lighter vein
To browse a crop from pastures (Green’s) Of England’s Evolution scenes.
Who would from facts prognosticate The future progress of this State,
Must own the chiefest fact to be Her escalator is the Sea.
Prehistoric H ISTORIANS erudite and sage, When writing of the past stone age,
Tell us man once was clothed in skins And tattooed patterns on his shins.
Rough bearded and with shaggy locks He lived in dug-outs in the rocks.
Was often scared and run to earth By creatures of abnormal girth:
Mammoths and monsters; truth to tell We find their names too long to spell.
He joined in little feuds no doubt; And with his weapons fashioned out
Of flint, went boldly to the fray; And cracked a skull or two per day.
Druids W E read of priests of Celtic day, Ancient Druids, holding sway
By smattering