9781985380936

The Power-House

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781985380936

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We were at Glenaicill-six of us-for the duck-shooting, when Leithen told us this story. Since five in the morning we had been out on the skerries, and had been blown home by a wind which threatened to root the house and its wind-blown woods from their precarious lodgment on the hill. A vast nondescript meal, luncheon and dinner in one, had occupied us till the last daylight departed, and we settled ourselves in the smoking-room for a sleepy evening of talk and tobacco.Conversation, I remember, turned on some of Jim's trophies which grinned at us from the firelit walls, and we began to spin hunting yarns. Then Hoppy Bynge, who was killed next year on the Bramaputra, told us some queer things about his doings in New Guinea, where he tried to climb Carstensz, and lived for six months in mud. Jim said he couldn't abide mud- anything was better than a country where your boots rotted. (He was to get enough of it last winter in the Ypres Salient.) You know how one tale begets another, and soon the whole place hummed with odd recollections, for five of us had been a good deal about the world.

ISBN-13

9781985380936

ISBN-10

1985380935

Weight

0.34 Pounds

Dimensions

5.98 x 0.22 x 9.02 In

List Price

$7.89

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

106 pages

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published On

2018-05-15



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