![]() Smith, whose individuality was supposed to be sufficiently represented by a sun-bonnet worn wrong side before and a weekly addition to her family, was never perfectly appreciated by her own circle although she lived the character for a month. I remember that her personation of a certain Mrs. Most of the cha characters racters that she assumed for days and sometimes weeks at a time were purely original in conception some so much much so as toīe vague to the general understanding. This was, I believe, the only instance when she had borrowed borrowed from another's fiction. Part of her existence had been passed as a Beggar Child-solely indicated by a shawl tightly folded round her shoulders and chills,as a Schoolmistress, unnecessarily severe as a Preacher, singularly personal in his remarks, and once, after reading reading one of Cooper's novels, as an Indian Maiden. Perhaps I ought to explain that she had already known other experiences of a purely imaginative character. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte. Need it be added that she did not live live in an island and that her name was "Polly." ![]() She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humour, deprecated violence and had never been to sea. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Queen of the Pirate Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte. ![]() BEGGAR CHILDĬAPTUR CAP TURE E OF OF M MERC ERCHA HANTM NTMAN AN 18 AT SUPPERĬLAD CLA D IN DEEPES DEEPEST T MOUR MOURNIN NING G 44 BROTHER BROT HER STEP-ANDSTEP-AND-FETCH FETCH-IT -IT 48 WAN LEEĪSLEEP WITH DOLL 60 The Project Gutenberg Gutenberg eBook of The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte. LIST OF ILLUSTRATI ILLUSTRATIONS ONS MRS SMITH POLLY The paper concluded by examining the political as well as the socio-economic significance of the legend in contemporary discours.A FACSIMILE FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLICATION OF 1885 Harte, Bret, 1836-1902. It is strongly argued that the legend is only legendary and a historical travesty. This paper is intended to look more closely at some of the claims made by this legend and its implication on the Ethiopian peoples, their heritage and identity. This has lasted for a period close to a thousand years and making the dynasty to be one of the longest and oldest monarchies anywhere in the world. The dynasty followed a succession of rulers from Yekunno- Amlak in circa 1270AD to the last emperor in the person of Haile- Selassie 1 who was deposed in 1974. It purported to explain how the Ethiopian ruling dynasty ‘the Solomonic dynasty’ was descended from Solomon and through him from Abraham and the early patriarchs. The existence of the Orthodox Tewahido church and other religious ceremonies, the presence of Beta Israel, the names of people like Makeda or Sheba and organizations such as the Sheba Miles are all testimonies to the legend living in the present Ethiopian communities. Ethiopians and is reflected in their day to day daily lives. The legend is still widely believed by the majority of. It is clearly one of the most accepted, believed, pervasive and resonant among all the legends of origin in Africa, today. Imperial dynasty in Japan or the Seifuwa dynasty in the Lake Chad basin. Producing the oldest monarchy in Africa comparable, perhaps, only to the The legend of Queen Sheba is undoubtedly one of the oldest legends,
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