Excerpt from The Sealed Valley The two prevailing styles of dwellings were wet A tents with projecting, rusty stovepipes and new pine shacks of a crass yellow, having roofs of tar paper stud ded with tin-headed tacks as big as half dollars. A single two-story building loomed up in the middle like a pack ing-case among soap-boxes. This was the Fort Edward Hotel, better known as Maroney's. The other habita tions reached out on either hand in an irregular dou ble row. The space Within the double row was going to be the main ...
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Excerpt from The Sealed Valley The two prevailing styles of dwellings were wet A tents with projecting, rusty stovepipes and new pine shacks of a crass yellow, having roofs of tar paper stud ded with tin-headed tacks as big as half dollars. A single two-story building loomed up in the middle like a pack ing-case among soap-boxes. This was the Fort Edward Hotel, better known as Maroney's. The other habita tions reached out on either hand in an irregular dou ble row. The space Within the double row was going to be the main artery of traffic some day, but where the Opti mists (and the real-estate Operators) fondly foresaw automobiles and trolley cars rolling up and down, at present there was nothing but a parade of jagged stumps among which muddy paths threaded their devi ous ways. Below the hotel a tiny stern-wheeler Of quaint, lubberly design lay with her nose tucked in the mud of the river bank. At eleven in the morning there were few humans in sight, because the black flies were in murderous fettle, and anyway, the principal industry of the place was waiting for the railway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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