How Long to Read Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime

How Long Does it Take to Read Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 5 minutes to read Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

YOU enter the village of Gantick between two round-houses set one on each side of the high road where it dips steeply towards the valley bottom. On the west of the opposite hill the road passes out between another pair of round-houses. And down in the heart of the village among the elms facing the churchyard lych-gate stands a fifth, alone. The five, therefore, form an elongated St. Andrew’s cross; but nobody can tell for certain who built them, or why. They are all alike; each built of cob, circular, whitewashed, having pointed windows and a conical roof of thatch with a wooden cross on the apex. When I was a boy these thatched roofs used to be pointed out to me as masterpieces; and they still endure. But the race of skilled thatchers, once the peculiar pride of Gantick, has come to an end. What time has eaten modern and clumsy hands have tried to repair; yet a glance will tell you that the old sound work means to outwear the patches. The last of these famous thatchers lived in the round-house on your right as you leave Gantick by the seaward road. His name was old Nat Ellery, or Thatcher Ellery, and his age (as I remember him) between seventy or eighty. Yet he clung to his work, being one of those lean men upon whom age, exposure, and even drink take a long while to tell. For he drank; not socially at the Ring of Bells, but at home in solitude with a black bottle at his elbow. He lived there alone; his neighbours, even of the round-house across the road, shunned him and were shunned by him: children would run rather than meet him on the road as he came along, striding swiftly for his age (the drink never affected his legs), ready greaved and sometimes gauntleted as if in haste for his job, always muttering to himself; and when he passed us with just a side-glance from his red eyes, we observed that his pale face did not cease to twitch nor his lips to work. We felt something like awe for the courage of Archie Passmore, who followed twenty paces behind with his tools and a bundle of spars or straw-rope, or perhaps at the end of a ladder which the two carried between them. Archie (aged sixteen) used to boast to us that he did not fear the old man a ha’penny; and the old man treated Archie as a Gibeonite, a hewer of wood, a drawer of water, never as an apprentice. Of his craft, except what he picked up by watching, the lad learned nothing.

How long is Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime?

Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch is 124 pages long, and a total of 31,496 words.

This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 52 minutes to read Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime aloud.

What Reading Level is Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime?

Three Men of Badajos, The Seventh Man I swa Three Ships, and A Blue Pantomime is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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