Opis: The Man on Horseback (Classic Reprint) - Abdullah Achmed

Excerpt from The Man on Horseback

Like a great, shimmering silver horn the morning mist swung out of the valley and Tom Graves swung along with it, sitting his tough, sinewy, thirteen-hand pony as easily as a lifetime of it can teach a man, and lifting the mare gently with knee and soft word and knowing hand when ruts or slippery timber falls cleft the road or when it dipped too suddenly into rock-strewn levels.

Fourteen miles beyond, an hour and a half's ride if the pony was as keen as the man, was Woodfell, a one-horse, one-man homestead of drab, slat-built house, splintering, zig-zag fence, rickety corral, and a brown, hopeless blotch of illy tilled fields. There he would stable his horse with "Swede" Johnson, the squatter, pay more or less gracefully that flaxen-haired individual's habitual overcharge for a meal consisting of bread mixed in the flour bag and baked in the frying-pan, inky, boiled coffee, stringy bacon that tasted of fish, and rice pudding remarkable for its shortcomings as to raisins, and resume his journey on foot into the Hoodoo mining district.

Tom Graves was easily moved to laughter.

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Szczegóły: The Man on Horseback (Classic Reprint) - Abdullah Achmed

Nazwa: The Man on Horseback (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Abdullah Achmed
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332512607
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 354
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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