The Tale Of My Exile Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from In Exile, and Other Stories Nicky dyer and the schoolmistress sat upon the slope of a hill, one of a, low range overlooking an arid Californian valley. These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascend ing, Winding among the tangle of poison oak and wild-rose bushes, leading from the miners' cabins to the shaft-houses and tun nels of the mine Which gave to the hills their only importance. Nicky was a stout Cornish lad of thirteen, With large light eyes that seemed mildly to protest against the sportive relation Which q broad, free kled, turned-up nose bore to the rest of his countenance; he was doing nothing in par ticular, and did it as if he were used to it. The schoolmistress sat With her skirts tucked round her ankles, the heels of her stout little boots driven well into the dry. 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.