Tale Of West And East Classic Reprint

Author : George Frederic Parsons
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330749944
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Middle Ground; Or Between East and West written by George Frederic Parsons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Middle Ground; Or Between East and West: A Christmas Story Quick in a somewhat peculiar manner, viz: by the presence of certain unmistakable evidences that it was the morning after Saturday night. The camp was known far and wide as a particularly lively one - indeed, there were some sanguine spirits who were known to have predicted that if it survived it would shortly rival Cheyenne. On the morning in question its liveliness was of rather a drowsy and befuddled kind, but there were not wanting signs that it had been true to itself, and had fully maintained its character, on the previous evening. From out the entrance of no less than seven tents protruded what looked in the dim light of early morning like black logs, arranged in pairs, but which became revealed, when the sun rose higher, as the pedal extremities of a corresponding number of citizens, whoso devotion to the bottle over night had incapacitated them from winning their way further into the interior of their respective domicils. But the early sun shone on uglier things than the fourteen mud-encrusted boots of the seven oblivious citizens aforementioned. In the center of the little alley, which formed the main and only street, stood a tent erected over and enclosing a rude frame of lumber. It was larger and more ambitious than its fellows, and a canvas sign nailed along its front informed the public that Mr. Richard Bouser was prepared to dispense liquid refreshments of every imaginable description. This place was silent now, and the canvas curtain that served for a door was drawn close. But the thick, pasty mud in front was trampled and stamped as with furiously struggling feet, and within a radius of ten yards lay three citizens who would never again be enrolled among the customers of Mr. Richard Bouser. They all lay with their heads outward, and their feet pointing towards the doorway. They all lay on their backs, their faces white, and set, and rigid, and their eyes glaring unwinkingly at the sun, that stared down in return as though amazed. On their soiled and torn clothing, and their hands and faces, were stains; and round about their bodies, and in the deep footmarks of the trampled space, stood little pools and runlets of some dark fluid that resembled the ooze which fills the hoof-prints of cattle at their drinking places in marshy ground. 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.