The Red Swan´s Neck
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Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Red Swan´s Neck: A Tale of the North Carolina Mountains "Th´ boy´d better been t´ home savin´ his mammy all this trouble o´ huntin´ him," growled Snags Groucher, an aboriginal crone whose one protruding tooth was her only claim to immortality. "W´at ye talkin´ about?" inquired the Rev. William Watchcob, a grey-haired mountaineer preacher, who had finished his "preachin´," and stood talking to a group of parishioners at the church door. He was somewhat out of sorts, notwithstanding his late lurid dissertation on original sin. The rain falling in gentle rhythm without held the few jarring members within doors. "I be talkin´ erbout Gyp, that ´bominable wee Stybright cub who´s alius givin´ his daddy and mammy trouble," Snags replied with unnecessary glow in her sharp, resolute eyes. "It hain´t Gyp, it´s his daddy that´s a doin´ it all," snapped Judy Gans,"gettin´ drunk an´ chasin´ his wife an´ boy out´n th´ house! That´s th´ ole man: I know him!" "Ef th´ ole man do get drunk an´ beller aroun´ th´ house, it´s his own house, hain´t it? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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