Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds

Edward Thomas

• Publisher: White Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781473315006
• eBook ISBN: 9781473359734

This book is Edward Thomas's only book specifically for children. It contains 24 wonderful tales drawing influence from a very happy time in his life living on Elses Farm in Kent, England. Edward Thomas was an accomplished writer and his work included essays, travelogues, topographical descriptions, reviews, critical studies and biographies. He was killed in action in the First World War in 1917.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Edward Thomas
• Dedication
• Contents
• A Long Time Ago
• 1. Set a Thief to Catch a Thief (Kent)
• 2. Never Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (Dorset)
• 3. Better Late than Never (Isle of Wight)
• 4. Look Before You Leap (Isle of Wight)
• 5. It’s All My Eye and Betty Martin (Wiltshire)
• 6. Half a Loaf is Better than No Bread (Scotland)
• 7. You Can’t Make a Silk Purse from a Sow’s Ear (Suffolk)
• 8. First Come First Served (Glamorganshire)
• 9. Birds of a Feather Flock Together (Norfolk to Somerset)
• 10. The Nearer the Bone the Sweeter the Meat (Carmarthenshire)
• 11. A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush (Hampshire)
• 12. Enough is as Good as a Feast (West Country)
• 13. People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones (Hampshire)
• 14. It’s an Ill Wind that Blows Nobody any Good (Nottinghamshire)
• 15. There’s Many a Slip ’Twixt Cup and Lip (Hampshire)
• 16. One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer (North Wales)
• 17. Time and Tide Wait for No Man (Cornwall)
• 18. He Who Laughs Last Laughs Longest (Wiltshire)
• 19. A Cat May Look at a King (Scotland)
• 20. Everything Comes to Him Who Waits (Somerset)
• 21. Never Say Die (Lancashire)
• 22. East, West, Home’s Best (Cornwall)
• 23. Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth (Westmorland)
• 24. Many a Little Makes a Mickle (Gloucestershire)