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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

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Again they were quiet, voiceless, and thus in fading light they came to their homes. But how windy, dispossessed and ravaged, roved the darkening world! Clouds were borne frantically across the heavens, as if in a rout of battle, and the lovely earth seemed to sigh in grief at some calamity all unknown to men.

A. E. Coppard

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

A. E. Coppard

A. E. Coppard

A. E. Coppard

Born: 1878

Died: 1957 (aged 79)

Bio: Alfred Edgar Coppard was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet.

Known for:

Adam & Eve & pinch me (1921)
The Higgler and Other Stories (1930)
Fearful Pleasures (1946)
Hips & haws (1922)
Weep Not My Wanton: Selected Short Stories

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