Author: Crockett Crockett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-16

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781331484684

Excerpt from The Red Axe Well do I, Hugo Gottfried, remember the night of snow and moonlight when first they brought the Little Playmate home. I had been sleeping - a sturdy, well-grown fellow I, ten years or so as to my age - in a stomacher of blanket and a bedgown my mother had made me before she died at the beginning of the cold weather. Suddenly something awoke me out of my first sleep. So, all in the sharp chill of the night, I got out of my bed, sitting on the edge with my legs dangling, and looked curiously at the bright streams of moonlight Which crossed the wooden floor of my garret. Ithought if only I could swim straight up one of them, as the motes did in the sunshine, I should be sure to come in time to the place Where my mother was - the place where all the pretty White things came from - the sunshine, the moonshine, the starshine, and the snow. 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.