A Lone Star Bo-Peep: And Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Lone Star Bo-Peep: And Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life

Meanwhile, in the shadowy Vistas of the dim shrubbery, vague, indistinct forms seem moving. They flit to and fro with a skulking and stealthy movement they seem ale1;t, uneasy, restless the ghosts Of incarnate suspicion. Suddenly they are off in a body with a precipitate haste that is ludicrous in its apparent cowardice.

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Excerpt from A Lone Star Bo-Peep: And Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life

Day was just breaking on the Chadbourne Trail. The pale mists, surprised by rosy Aurora, were scampering in hurried dishabille across its wavering outline, tearing their trailing night-robes upon the thorny mesquites and scattering filmy draperies in its live oak aisles. A few faint stars, through fleecy cloud-rifts, still twinkled tearfully, and but a moment ago the waning moon, that had languished in the western heaven, had lain a pale face upon the sloping shoulder of a great divide and wearily sunk to rest within its somber bosom.

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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.