This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...this dark place, a bat flew down from the roof, and fluttered like a great moth into the darkness beyond. She started back with a sudden scream and a sense of horror, which was quickly followed by a feeling of shame at her cowardice, and taking a candle and a tinder box from a small bag at her girdle, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...this dark place, a bat flew down from the roof, and fluttered like a great moth into the darkness beyond. She started back with a sudden scream and a sense of horror, which was quickly followed by a feeling of shame at her cowardice, and taking a candle and a tinder box from a small bag at her girdle, she struck a light and entered, remembering that she must be careful not to go near where she supposed the powder to be. Her eyes soon got accustomed to the dusky twilight within, and as they did so the interior became visible, and she saw that it was littered with heaps of casks, bales, and other evidences of merchandise, especially barrels of what smelled like rum. But beyond, there in a" gloomy corner, and more welcome to her sight, piled against the wall, were what she had expected to find--a large stack of muskets and, near them, several small kegs piled by themselves, which her knowledge of such commodities made her surmise to be powder and ball. Now, dreamer and idealist as this girl was, her life in her Colonial environment had taught her many things which it behooved her to know, which a girl of to-day or of that period in the Old World might not have known. She understood somewhat about guns and powder and shot, though she surrounded the second of these with a superstitious mystery, and she now realized that something must be done, and that quickly, to get rid of those dangerous things, or to render them useless to Mr. Fox and his followers. Her first thought had been to wet the powder; but it was rolled up in kegs, and, womanlike, she had an innate fear of touching anything which she suspected might go off at any moment. Then she thought that she might smash the gunlocks, so she hunted about for some instrument with which to...
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First U.k. Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. pp 318. Original publisher's light green cloth boards, with a decorative motif of dark green trees and white clouds to front cover. Novel of Upper Canadian history. Very slight wear at spine extremities, f.e.p. slightly foxed and with neat non-authorial name and number in ink else very good.
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