Zanita, a Tale of the Yo-Semite (Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. A Day's Pleasure. Where was I ? Was it all a midsummer night's dream ? The question was answered by a little sharp voice snapping out, ? " Don't you want to come and bathe ? The river is just deep enough to drown father in some places; but you can take your shoes and stockings off." And through my half-closed lids I saw my fairy of the previous evening, with the miniature frown still on her face, and a worried look, as though she had the cares of the world on her slender shoulders. " Hurry up! " she said; " we have to catch the fish for breakfast. I can hook five or a dozen " (her conception of numbers was not very profound), " and if that is not enough we can get th'em from the Indians. You need not be afraid of that Indian squatting on the rock with his bow drawn: he'll not shoot you unless you cross their trail. He 's waiting for a Payute to come; they've been at war. I'll take care of you. They always shoot with poisoned arrows; do you know it ? I'm not a bit afraid of them," she said, and the same uncanny light, which symbolized a smile, shot from her eyes. Upon the most positive promise that I would prepare immediately if she would leave me, I succeeded in sending her forth to collect fishing tackle; and shortly after breakfast was announced by the sweet voice of Madonna. Looking through my trellis work of vine leaves, my eyes wandered up what appeared a mile of perpendicular rock, without ever meeting the sky. The morning snn was bringing out upon it the softest gray tints streaked with burnished silver. Here and there a tuft of spirea was clinging, by some occult process, to the smooth rock; and the feathery branches of the spruce and tamarack were defined against its glistening surface, as though they had been frescoed there. I could he...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. A Day's Pleasure. Where was I ? Was it all a midsummer night's dream ? The question was answered by a little sharp voice snapping out, ? " Don't you want to come and bathe ? The river is just deep enough to drown father in some places; but you can take your shoes and stockings off." And through my half-closed lids I saw my fairy of the previous evening, with the miniature frown still on her face, and a worried look, as though she had the cares of the world on her slender shoulders. " Hurry up! " she said; " we have to catch the fish for breakfast. I can hook five or a dozen " (her conception of numbers was not very profound), " and if that is not enough we can get th'em from the Indians. You need not be afraid of that Indian squatting on the rock with his bow drawn: he'll not shoot you unless you cross their trail. He 's waiting for a Payute to come; they've been at war. I'll take care of you. They always shoot with poisoned arrows; do you know it ? I'm not a bit afraid of them," she said, and the same uncanny light, which symbolized a smile, shot from her eyes. Upon the most positive promise that I would prepare immediately if she would leave me, I succeeded in sending her forth to collect fishing tackle; and shortly after breakfast was announced by the sweet voice of Madonna. Looking through my trellis work of vine leaves, my eyes wandered up what appeared a mile of perpendicular rock, without ever meeting the sky. The morning snn was bringing out upon it the softest gray tints streaked with burnished silver. Here and there a tuft of spirea was clinging, by some occult process, to the smooth rock; and the feathery branches of the spruce and tamarack were defined against its glistening surface, as though they had been frescoed there. I could he...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

2012

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2012

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246 x 189 x 4mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

78

ISBN-13

978-0-217-15139-9

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9780217151399

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0-217-15139-6



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