Author: Keene Abbott

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781331702825

Excerpt from Wine O' the Winds As the stage-coach moved along a smooth stretch of prairie trail, the easy sway and dip of the vehicle, in addition to a quiet and soothing patter of rain, had begun to exert a drowsy influence even upon the more restless of the two passengers. Now he did not so often raise a dripping curtain, nor peer out as if he would like to get away from his companion by plunging off yonder into that drenched solitude of falling night. But despite the tranquillizing mood of movement and weather, he still looked from time to time for anything which might show itself in the deepening darkness. Once, when a sombre shape came briefly into view, he scarce identified it as a tent; for the gray shelter, sagging with the wet, seemed like some morose phantom lost there in the streaming wilderness. An inner light, feebly blurring through the canvas, disclosed vaguely a group of words daubed with axle-grease or tar. 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.