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Excerpt from The Sandbar Queen: A Play in One Act Flat-boat slim is nothing but a peering sil honette, bent over some task on his backless stool by the table. The light without, inas much as it rather intensifies than lightens the growing twilight within, annoys him. He gets up and goes to the window, holding the object of his labor to the voluptuous brilliance. It is a sock of thick German wool, and he is darning. But the fierce radiance thwarts that endeavor too, and with infinite disgust, for he is a methodical person, he resigns himself to the inevitable ravishment of dying sunlight, by rolling up the article in a neat ball and stowing it, together with the needle, under a corner of his mattress. He then goes to the stove, takes 017 the lid, arranges in the re cesses of that receptacle a wad of paper from a wood box set behind it, and extracts from the same place a stick of fire wood, which he proceeds to sliver down with great precision. He drops this on top of the paper and lights the pile, adding more sticks, with a certain decorous care. This ceremony completed, he closes the stove and peers into an open kettle, which serves as tea, coffee and soup kettle. Accepting its emptiness, he picks up the bucket, draws from it a coil of rope attached to the handle, and goes out through the door, leaving it open. A splash of bucket in run ning water is heard as the Frazer rewards its hermit. 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.