Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
In Chapter 2 of A Tangled Web, Big Sam and Little Sam quarrel over the nude statue Aurora, and Big Sam moves out. They split their posessions.
Big Sam packed his picture of Laurier and the model of a ship, with crimson hull and white sails, that had long adorned the crater-cornered shelf above his bunk. These were indisputably his. But when it came to their small library there was difficulty.
“Which of these books am I to take?” he demanded frostily.
“Whichever you like,” said Little Sam, getting out his baking-board. There were only two books in the lot he cared a hoot about, anyhow. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and The Horrible Confession and Execution of John Murdoch (one of the Emigrants who lately left this country) who was hanged at Brockville (Upper Canada) on the 3rd day of September last for the inhuman Murder of His own brother.
When Little Sam saw Big Sam pack the latter in his valise, he had much ado to repress a grisly groan.
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs can be read online here.
