The Child Classic Reprint

Author : Hope Farm Man
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483647558
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Child (Classic Reprint) written by Hope Farm Man and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Child That was it exactly. Hiram thought it out with a little touch of bitterness before his fire. His mind went away from the old battles and the part he had taken in great events, to a little mound in the yard back of the old church. A child could step over it, yet somehow it always seemed like a mountain to Hiram, standing as it did between what he had hoped for, what he had, and what he had hoped the end of his life would be. Before his fire on this chilly night of early Fall, he was thinking of the Winter to come. How different the house and the farm would be if there were little children asleep upstairs; if one of them could sit beside the dog, or fall asleep beside that big book in mother's lap. He glanced at her as he thought. She had opened her book, and in the dim light was slowly tracing words with her finger. What she read there is the key of this little story, but we shall not find it until we come to the very end. We cannot lock things up until they are completed; we do not use the key at the beginning. For now we have come to our beginning before the fire. Hiram and Mary, busy with their thoughts and their book, did not hear the wheels of Hen Bingham's buggy as it turned in from the road. The driveway was grassy anyway, for few found business that way. It was Hen's old gray horse answering the barn call of Hiram's black that really announced the visitors. The old dog roused himself with a growl, as if ashamed of his deafness and his drowsiness. Mary put aside her book and brought out the lamp, while Hiram, like a soldier who demands the countersign, opened the door and held out his lantern. 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.