Excerpt from The Crooked Stick: Pollie's Probation The time, the close of a lurid sultry February day, towards the end of a long, dry summer succeeding a rainless winter, in the arid region of West Logan. A blood-red sun sinking all too slowly, yet angrily, into a crimson ocean suddenly disappearing, as if in despotic de fiance of all future rainfall. A fiery portent receding into the inferno of a vast conflagra tion, was the image chiefly presented to the dwellers in that pastoral desert, long heart sick with hope ...
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Excerpt from The Crooked Stick: Pollie's Probation The time, the close of a lurid sultry February day, towards the end of a long, dry summer succeeding a rainless winter, in the arid region of West Logan. A blood-red sun sinking all too slowly, yet angrily, into a crimson ocean suddenly disappearing, as if in despotic de fiance of all future rainfall. A fiery portent receding into the inferno of a vast conflagra tion, was the image chiefly presented to the dwellers in that pastoral desert, long heart sick with hope deferred. The scene, a limitless stretch of plain - its wearisome monotony feebly broken by belts of timber or an infrequent pine-ridge. The earth adust. A hopeless, steel-blue sky. 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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