The Sign of the Wooden Shoon (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Sign of the Wooden Shoon

Pathos and humour rub shoulders in M r. Mather's book as they do in life itself, and the result is a curiously interesting piece of wot it. We should feel sorry foranyone who could read the exqulstte sketch, A Child of the Heather, With dry eyes, and the grim humour of A Moorland Machpelah is quite admirable. There are twenty delightful Idylls in the volume, not one of which fails to show either strength, tenderness.

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Excerpt from The Sign of the Wooden Shoon

They were sitting in the twilight, looking into the embers of the fire. A distraught air was upon them, and each waited for the other to break a silence both painful and long-continued.

The room was low-ceiled, and crossed with warped and worm-eaten beams. Cumbrous furniture filled up the spaces, and through a mullioned window fell the closing lights of day. A reign of quiet order, almost unhomely, rested on chair and settle, shelf and sill, broken by no misplaced trifle nor discounted by any trail of dust.

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.