Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer
By J. S. Fletcher
Length5h 13m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Everyone who has had the pleasure of Mr. Poskitt's acquaintance knows that that estimable Yorkshireman is not only the cheeriest of hosts, but the best of companions. Those of us who have known the Poskitt High Tea (a much more enjoyable meal than a late dinner) know what follows the consumption of Mrs. Poskitt's tender chickens and her home-fed hams. The parlour fire is stirred into a blaze; the hearth is swept clean; the curtains are drawn; the decanters, the cigars, and the quaint old leaden tobacco-box appear beneath the shaded lamp, and Mr. Poskitt bids his guests to cheer up, to help themselves, and to feel heartily welcome. And when those guests have their glasses at their elbows, their cigars and pipes between their lips, and their legs stretched in comfort, Mr. Poskitt has his story to tell. Few men know the countryside and its people, with their joys, their sorrows, their humours better than he; few people there can surely be who would not enjoy hearing him tell of the big and little dramas of life which he has watched, with a shrewd and sympathetic eye, during his seventy years of work and play, of cloud and sunshine. In some of these Nightcap stories (so termed by their hearers because Mr. Poskitt insists on telling them as preparatory to his own early retirement, which is never later than ten o'clock) he is sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic. I trust the re-telling of them may give some pleasure to folk who must imagine for themselves the cheery glow of Mr. Poskitt's hearth."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 17, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9CHAPTER VII
2INTRODUCTION
10CHAPTER VIII
3CHAPTER I
11CHAPTER IX
4CHAPTER II
12CHAPTER X
5CHAPTER III
13CHAPTER XI
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6CHAPTER IV
14CHAPTER XII
7CHAPTER V
15CHAPTER XIII
8CHAPTER VI
16CHAPTER XIV
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