This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...alone. He came to a more cultivated country before long, a region of orchards, groves, and fields, in which there were men and boys at work. When he got tired and hungry, he sat down oil a log in the edge of some woods, where there was a roadside spring, and opened his bag, in which he knew that Mary's careful hands ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...alone. He came to a more cultivated country before long, a region of orchards, groves, and fields, in which there were men and boys at work. When he got tired and hungry, he sat down oil a log in the edge of some woods, where there was a roadside spring, and opened his bag, in which he knew that Mary's careful hands had placed his luncheon. He had many things to think of, you may bo sure, as he unfolded the neat brown-paper covering, and found hardboiled eggs, and salt, and butter, and biscuit," and cold chicken, --enough for'luncheon and dinner too. After eating, he got down on his face and drank at the spring, which flowed out from under a cold, mossy rock. A spout conducted the water down to a large roadside trough, where travellers stopped to water their teams. While Jacob was sitting there in the shade, a farmer in a two-horse wagon drove up to the trough, and was about getting down from his seat, when Jacob sprang up and offered to uncheck his horses for him. "Thank ye, boy," said the man. Then, after Jacob had put up the check-reins again, "Tumble in and ride, if you are going my way." Jacob was going his way, and he "tumbled in" accordingly. So Jacob walked and rested, and rode occasionally, without meeting with any remarkable adventures that day or the next. He slept the first night at a farm-house, and on the afternoon of the second day came to the village of Jackson. Seeing the smoke of an iron-furnace, he made his way toward it; and taking out Matthew's letter, and looking at the back of it, asked some men in the casting-room if they could tell him where to find Benjamin Radkin. "You mean Mr. Benjamin Radkin, don't you?" said a big fellow, with grimy arms and face and a very blunt, overbearing manner. ...
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VG- No Jacket. Book. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Pub by Lee & Shepard, 1878. NOT exLib. VG-minus cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Marbled paper over bds, 3/4 brown leather w/ gilt lettering on spine. 6 ribs. Leather scuffed at shoulders & wear points, w/ pencil-dia chip out of lower spine. Marbled eps. Pages toned. Very light dampstaining here & there throughout, mostly lower fore-edges. 304pp. Square, straight, tight, clean & unmarked except as noted, overall VG-or better cond. Please email any questions.
