The Crooked Stick: Pollie's Probation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Crooked Stick: Pollie's ProbationTHE time, the close of a lurid sultry Februaryday, towards the end of a long, dry summersucceeding a rainless winter, in the arid regionof West Logan. A blood-red sun sinking alltoo slowly, yet angrily, into a crimson ocean;suddenly disappearing, as if in despotic deliance of all future rainfall. A fiery portentreceding into the inferno of a vast conflagration, was the image chiefl.y presented to thedwellers in that pastoral desert, long heart-sickwith hope deferred.The scene, a limitless stretch of plain - itswearisome monotony feebly broken by belts oftimber or an infrequent pitie-ridge. The earthadut. A hopeless, steel-blue sky. The atmosphere stagnated, breezeless.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.