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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill BNER went down into the court-yard. He passed the group now engaged on another game of checkers, and went out to the horse-rack and mounted his mare. With his long legs swinging like pendulums back and forth from the flanks of the animal, he rode down the longest and widest street in town, past churches and homes of the townspeople, till he arrived at one of the most pretentious of the ante-bellum houses. It had two stories and a half, was of brick, quite commodious, with a long front veranda and a cupola. It stood well back from the street on a lawn, the grass of which had not been mown since the civil war. At the big, white-posted gate of the carriage- drive Abner turned his mare over to a slouchy-look- ing colored boy and walked up the rutted drive towards the veranda, on which stood a young man and an elderly lady. As Daniel approached the young man came down the steps and advanced to meet him. How are you, Uncle Ab? he cried, as he extended his hand cordially. I've just been talking to mother. Surprised to see me here, aren't you? Well, I admit I feel funny myself. I usually pick a time when father is away, but I slipped up on mycalculations this time. I thought he had gone out to his mill, but he loomed up at the door while I was in the library talking to mother. He gave one of his deepest grunts, an' turned tail and fled downtown like a feather in a high wind. So you 'n the old man are still pullin' agin one another? said Abner, in a tone of regret, as he smiled and bowed to the old lady, who was resuming her seat on the veranda. I'm mighty sorry to hear it, Eric; a thing like that's bad in any community. We are wider apart than ever, returned the young man, who was about twenty-seven years of age, tall, well-formed, and decidedly well-attired...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217891264 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217891268 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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