BLACK ROCK: A TALE OF THE SELKIRKS
by CONNOR, RALPH
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N.Y.: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Good condition. Weak front inside hinge. Foxing on endpapers.Bookplate on front pastedown page. It was due to a mysterious dispensation of Providence, and a good deal to Leslie Graeme, that I found myself in the heart of the Selkirks for my Christmas Eve as the year 1882 was dying. It had been my plan to spend my Christmas far away in Toronto, with such Bohemian and boon companions as could be found in that cosmopolitan and kindly city. But Leslie Graeme changed all that, for, discovering me in the village of Black Rock, with my traps all packed, waiting for the stage to start for the Landing, thirty miles away, he bore down upon me with resistless force, and I found myself recovering from my surprise only after we had gone in his lumber sleigh some six miles on our way to his camp up in the mountains. I was surprised and much delighted, though I would not allow him to think so, to find that his old-time power over me was still there. He could always in the old 'Varsity days-dear, wild days-make me do what he liked. He was so handsome and so reckless, brilliant in his class-work, and the prince of half-backs on the Rugby field, and with such power of fascination, as would 'extract the heart out of a wheelbarrow, ' as Barney Lundy used to say. And thus it was that I found myself just three weeks later-I was to have spent two or three days, -on the afternoon of the 24th of December, standing in Graeme's Lumber Camp No. 2, wondering at myself. But I did not regret my changed plans, for in those three weeks I had raided a cinnamon bear's den and had wakened up a grizzly-But I shall let the grizzly finish the tale; he probably sees more humour in it than
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- Livres Norrois (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124614
- Title
- BLACK ROCK: A TALE OF THE SELKIRKS
- Author
- CONNOR, RALPH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- GROSSET & DUNLAP
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- English books;
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