The Peregrines Saga And Other Stories Of The Country Green PDF Download

Excerpt from The Peregrine's Saga and Other Stories of the Country Green A roaring westerly wind came over the Atlantic, scattering a spray from the crests of the green rollers and rushing up the face of the precipice. Gulls perched on the ledges of the cliff had only to launch themselves forward into the uptrend in order to reach the swarded lip above, but their movements were clumsy. Usually they were masters of wind, but to-day a gale was blowing, and they were whirled and buffeted and tossed like the dry brown heads of old sea-pinks in the crevices around them. But to the blast and rush of the gale The One-Eyed was indifferent. Three thousand feet over the Devon promontory he hung, wings curved slightly backwards, black-barred thighs and yellow legs tucked in, tail straight out. He was not unlike an anchor with its shank snapped off, motionless and suspended. His eye regarded all below him: the three rabbits venturing forth from the bonded stone wall, the raven behind it standing in the furrows turned that morning, the finch striving vainly to fly into the wind, the yelping gulls, the oyster-catchers perched on the rocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.