The Late Mrs. Null
Subtitle: The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton Part One
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781417925087
Subjects: Short stories; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: THERE was a wide entrance-gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family or visitors; although occasionally a load of wood, drawn by two horses and two mules, came between its tall chestnut posts, and was taken by a roundabout way among the trees to a spot at the back of the house, where the chips of several generations of sturdy wood-choppers had formed a ligneous soil deeper than the arable surface of any portion of the nine hundred and fifty acres which formed the farm of Midbranch.