Complete Writings
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153968126
Paperback|9781153968126
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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. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... broad in the body, and short in the leg; they wore oilskin clothes, and shoes with great suckers under the soles, so that they could walk up the walls and along the ceiling like heavy blue-bottle flies, and cushioned caps in case they should fall off, which they did sometimes. And when they went out they slung great wind-bladders under each arm, from which they could suck air as they wanted it. And how they kept the water from coming in at the door whenever they opened it, you must ask the air-pump which was kept on the premises, and which Bran had to work at many hours of each day. He was almost dead with fatigue when one day he woke up and found it was Sunday, and that no work was to be done. The lake-dwellers gave him an oilskin coat, and a couple of air-bladders to carry under each arm, and bade him be off for the day and come back again by sunset. ' For if you get lost, ' said his master, ' or if your air-bladders give out before you get home, you will become an accidental in no time.' They seemed to be kind enough people in their way, Bran thought, when the lake-dweller's wife let him fill his pockets with dried fish and preserved sticks of sea-kail for his midday meal; and so, wishing his master and mistress a pleasant good-morning, he set off to see what sort of a world lay outside. He had not gone far before he met others, like himself, dressed in oilskins and carrying air-bladders; and they all seemed to be going the same way. They looked at him with a sad sort of indifference, saying no word, and he could guess by their height that they were descendants from the upper world, and not lake-dwellers in the true sense at all. They trod heavily, scarcely lifting their feet from the ground; now and then one of them would drop forward...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153968126 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153968126 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $41.57 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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