The Shaker Lovers And Other Tales
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781419182327
Subjects: Short stories; Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: I was once, upon a warm summer afternoon, journeying on horseback in that wild and picturesque tract of country, in New Hampshire, which borders on the upper portion of the mountainborn Merrimac, when a dark thunder cloud, that had been gathering, unperceived by me, in the distance, rose up suddenly from behind the screening hills, apprising me at once, by its threatening aspect, and the rapidity with which it was rolling towards me, that a thorough drenching was only to be avoided by an immediate flight to some place of shelter.