The Old Continental
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ISBN13: 9780217124850
Paperback|9780217124850
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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: CHAPTER III. A SKY-LARKING. The rendezvous of the sky-larking party, was at a house standing apart from the post road, in a retired valley, commonly called Hungry Hollow, and sometimes Hard Scramble Hole, a name aptly indicative of the place and its inhabitants. In almost every district of country, and every town, of any considerable magnitude, there will be found some peculiar spot, where the idle, the dissipated and the worthless, as it were instinctively, or by some irresistible sympathy, congregate together, to prey upon the neighbourhood and each other. This was the case with Hungry Hollow, into whose sheltering bosom had crept some dozen families of children of the night, who, as was said of them, slept while others worked, and worked while others slept. All day, they might be found lounging in bed, or sunning themselves in summer, and in winter crouching in the chimney corner, by a fire of such decayed woodas they could procure with- Dut the labour of cutting down trees. But to make up for thus killing time in the day, report said that they laboured hard at night, when, like animals of prey, they sallied forth to the infinite annoyance of the surrounding country, committing various petty depredations.hardly aspiring to the dignity of crimes. Whether they deserved all that was said of them, is doubtful. But, certain it is, they had a bad name, which is enough to bring both dog and man into perpetual trouble. Hungry Hollow, was, moreover, infamous for its ghosts, goblins, and all the dire array of rural superstition, partly, in all probability, from its situation, and partly from a disposition in the occupants to discourage interlopers from coming among them, to spy out the nakedness of the land. It was a lonely place, and solitude is the nurse of terror. A ruined ch...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217124850 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217124852 |
| 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 | 200 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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