A Child's History of England

A Child's History of England, by Charles Dickens
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Title: A Child's History of England Author: Charles Dickens
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Transcribed from the 1905 Chapman & Hall “Works of Charles Dickens” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
By CHARLES DICKENS With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend and others LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LD. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1905
CHAPTER I—ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS
If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland,—broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water. In the old days, a long, long while ...