# The bonfire

Author: Paget, Francis Edward, 1806-1882

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75991

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+bonfire+Paget&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A sour, cross, old man was Jasper Crabbe, living all by himself, and seeing little of his neighbours, and not at all liking their children,--so, at least, our Yateshull boys said,--and his coat was of such an old-fashioned cut, and his waistcoat and breecees were so patched and darned, and all his clothes hung so loose about his thin, withered limbs, that he looked more like a scarecrow than a man. He came to Yateshull from a distance, and everybody wondered why he took that little farm on the edge of the Common, for it was quite a ruinous tumble-down place: though, to be sure, when the neighbours saw him, they said that he and his farm were well suited to each other.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bonfire-75991/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-bonfire-75991/chapters/2/index.md)