Author: Helen S. Woodruff
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Published: 2015-07-12
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781331278429
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Excerpt from The Imprisoned Freeman Dick Dennison jumped from his boat as its keel grated on the shore, carelessly throwing in its bottom the paper-backed novel he had been reading; and then, pulling the boat up onto the small strip of snowy beach, tied it securely to a place just below the huge rocks that jutted out into the blueness of the little bay. At his approach a flock of sandpipers whirred into the air, and circling seemed to be suddenly obliterated - then all at once their breasts gleamed white against the horizon, once more conspicuous as they wheeled and circled away. Pausing, the boy gazed after them a moment as though spellbound. Across the island-studded, rippling blue expanse lay the white-capped ocean. It was June, and the thick mass of the woods coming down to the very edge of the rock-bound coast was reawakened from its winter dullness of spruce and pine-needled greenness by intermingling of the lacy, tender youth of belated white flowering cherry, creamy fuzzy oaks, and dainty leaved maples in scarlet bloom. Richard caught his breath with pleasure. The scene, old as it was to his native eyes, was never old, and each time that he saw it his heart thrilled with its majesty and beauty. Jerking at the anchor rope to assure himself that he had tied the boat so that the incoming tide could not possibly loosen it, he climbed nimbly up the huge lichen-covered boulder nearest him, and throwing his head back began to sing, as from this height he saw the lovely landscape grown in breadth. 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.
