THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST

Title: THE CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST

Author: Captain Marryat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date of publication: 2000/8/17

Wards

1. flame
Page 4
Context: He looked back and saw the flames of Arnwood shooting higher and higher above the trees.
Definition: Hot bright burning gas that you see when something is on fire
Example: The boy dashed through flames to pull his brother to safety.

2. pretend
Page 7
Context: You must go to bed and pretend to be ill.
Definition: To behave as if something is true when in fact you know it is not, in order to deceive people or for fun
Example: She often pretended to be a student.

3. mend
Page 12
Context:Alice learned hot to cook and mend clothes.
Definition: To repair a tear or hole in a piece of clothing
Example: Mend holes and tears in clothes before you wash them.

4. calf

Page 15
Context: She's left the other cows because of her new-born calf.
Definition: The baby of a cow, or of some other large animals
Example: The calf was born last week.

5. fortnight

Page 17

Context: Every day for a fortnight Humphrey brought grass to the cow.

Definition: Two weeks
Example: I have a fortnight's holiday.

6. ladder
Page 24
Context: He ran back to the stables and found a ladder.
Definition: A piece of equipment used for climbing up to or down from high places
Example: I leaned a ladder on the wall.

7. lovingly
Page 27
Context: In the evening Jacob spoke to them all very lovingly, one by one.
Definition: With love
Example: He gazed lovingly at his children.



This is a story about four Beverley children. They have no parents, their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King Charles. King Charles is in prison, and there is fighting everywhere in the England. Cromwell's men against the King's men. Cromwell's soldiers have burnt their home, and they have nothing. But, they have one true friend. His name is Jacob Armitage. He is old and living in the forest. Jacob help them to live in the forest. He taught how to hunt for meat, plant vegetables, and look after the farm animals to them.
One day, time has come. The King 's son has arrived in Scotland and is now King Charles II. To help the king, eldest child Edward headed for the battlefield, and won by help of France and other countries. After the battle, four Beverley children built new house on the same place as the house before it had been burnt.


I was very impressed by four children's strong will of living through the life. They got over unhappy situation while helping each other. Finally, they avenged their father's death.