Excerpt from Zadoc Pine and Other Stories Pine's wife had died before the boy was ten years old - lived in their little house in the woods. The father had some small savings, and the son could earn a little as a sort of auxiliary guide. He got a job here and there where some party needed an extra man. Zadoc was an excellent shot but he was no fisherman, and he had little knowledge of the streams and ponds further in the woods. So, when the old father was gone, when Zadoc had paid the last cent of his debt to the ...
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Excerpt from Zadoc Pine and Other Stories Pine's wife had died before the boy was ten years old - lived in their little house in the woods. The father had some small savings, and the son could earn a little as a sort of auxiliary guide. He got a job here and there where some party needed an extra man. Zadoc was an excellent shot but he was no fisherman, and he had little knowledge of the streams and ponds further in the woods. So, when the old father was gone, when Zadoc had paid the last cent of his debt to the storekeeper at Silsbee's - the storekeeper taking the almost worthless shanty of the Pines in part payment - when he had settled with Silsbee's saw-mill for the boards out of which he himself had made his father's coffin, Zadoc Pine stood on the station-platform and wondered what was going to become of him, or, rather, as he put it what he was a-going for to do with himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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