HOLIDAYS
AT
BRIGHTON.
Brighton, from the end of the Pier.
HOLIDAYS
AT BRIGHTON;
OR,
SEA-SIDE AMUSEMENTS.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY DARTON AND HARVEY,
GRACECHURCH STREET
1834.
LONDON:
Joseph Rickerby, Printer,
Sherbourn Lane.
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HOLIDAYS AT BRIGHTON.
CHAPTER I.
“Edward! Edward!” cried littleLewis Ashton; “when will you openyour sleepy eyes? Here I am almostdressed, and you are not awake yet.You forget we are not in London,where nothing is to be seen but dullstreets and black looking houses; orat school, where the first thing to beheard in the morning, is the sound[Pg 2]of the great bell calling us to lessons.”
“No, I do not,” cried Edward,starting up as though the great bellhad really roused him from his slumbers:“we are in Brighton at last;in Brighton, where the king andqueen live, and where there are somany grand things to be seen: butwhat I want to see more than all isthe deep wide sea. It was so darkwhen we came here last night, thatwhat papa told me was the sea lookedonly, as we rode along, like a lineof black clouds.”
“Come to the window, then,” saidLewis, “and you will see that itlooks bright and blue this morning.How the waves sparkle in the sun-beams!Those vessels in the distance[Pg 3]must be fishing-boats, fromtheir size; or is it because they areso very far away that they seem sosmall?”
“Some are larger than others,”said Edward: “and, look! it mustbe a steam-vessel which is smokingso, at the end of that long bridge wesee in the distance. Let us go andask papa to take us there; it wantsnearly an hour to breakfast-timeyet.”
Away ran both the children, Lewiswondering much what the long bridgehe had seen from the window couldbe intended for, as he saw no shoreat the further end—nothing but thewide blue sea.
Mr. Ashton told his little boys, heshould soon be ready to accompany[Pg 4]them; and Edward and Lewis amusedthemselves, till he made his appearance,in looking again at the newscene before them, from the windowsof their sitting-room. Lewis soonespied a strange-looking building,different from any that he ever rememberedto have seen before. Edwardcould only guess that it mustbe the Pavilion which they saw, withits domes and minarets. But nowpapa’s voice was heard from the hall,