Author : Gordon Stables
Release : 2015-07-08
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Download or read book Stanley Grahame written by Gordon Stables. This book was released on 2015-07-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stanley Grahame: Boy and Man; A Tale of the Dark Continent The great Forest. The forest of Cairntrie. Far away in the very centre of the Scottish Highlands it lies; so broad and wide is it, that you might journey for days and days on its outskirts, yet not be able to find your way around it. Lost in its depths and you would be lost indeed. For unless some friendly keeper found you and became your guide, the dreary winds would sing your dirge, and your bones, unburied, might bleach for months. In this great forest are hills and lakes and streams, and it is the home par excellence of the red deer of Scotland. Wild and free are they as the unchangeable mountains from which they gaze proudly down on their woody domains. It was of some such place as this that Professor Wilson, poet and angler, penned these lines: "How lonesome and wild! yet the wildness is rife With the stir of enjoyment - the spirit of life. The plad fish leaps up in the heart of the lake, Whose depths at the sudden plunge sullenly quake. Elate on the fern-bush the grasshopper sings, And away in the midst of his roundelay springs; While up on yon hill, in silence remote, The cuckoo unseen is repeating his note." They tell me that the forest of Cairntrie is also the home of a race of beings still more interesting than red deer. 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.