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Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

William Henry Harrison Murray
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HOW JOHN NORTON THE TRAPPER KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS. I. A CABIN. :A. cabin in the woods. In the cabi l. great fireplace piled high with logs, fiercely ablaze. On either side of tho broad hearthstono a hound sa.t on his haunches, looking gravely, as only a hound in a meditative mood can, into the glowing fire. In the center of the cabin, vbose every nook and corner was bright with the ruddy firelight, stood a wooden table, strongly built and solid. At the table sat John:ro" ton, poring over a book, - a book large of size, with wooden covers bound in leather, brovn with age, and smooth as with tho handling of many generations. The whitened heau of the old man wa.s bowed over the broad page, on which one hand rested, with the forefinger marking the sentence. A cabin in the woods filled with firelight, a table, a book, an old man studying the book. This was the scone on Christmas Eve. Outside, the earth was white with Snow, and in the blue sky above the snow was tho white
Language
English
Pages
136
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
January 01, 1897

Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

William Henry Harrison Murray
0/5 ( ratings)
HOW JOHN NORTON THE TRAPPER KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS. I. A CABIN. :A. cabin in the woods. In the cabi l. great fireplace piled high with logs, fiercely ablaze. On either side of tho broad hearthstono a hound sa.t on his haunches, looking gravely, as only a hound in a meditative mood can, into the glowing fire. In the center of the cabin, vbose every nook and corner was bright with the ruddy firelight, stood a wooden table, strongly built and solid. At the table sat John:ro" ton, poring over a book, - a book large of size, with wooden covers bound in leather, brovn with age, and smooth as with tho handling of many generations. The whitened heau of the old man wa.s bowed over the broad page, on which one hand rested, with the forefinger marking the sentence. A cabin in the woods filled with firelight, a table, a book, an old man studying the book. This was the scone on Christmas Eve. Outside, the earth was white with Snow, and in the blue sky above the snow was tho white
Language
English
Pages
136
Format
Kindle Edition
Release
January 01, 1897

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