The Buried Treasure Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt"

The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt"

The speaker was Godfrey Evansa tall, raw-boned man, dressed in a tattered, brown jean suit. He was barefooted, his toil-hardened hands and weather-beaten face were sadly soiled and begrimed, and his hair and whiskers looked as though they had never been made acquainted with a comb. As he spoke he drew an empty nail-keg from its corner, placed a board over the top of it, and seating himself, ran his eye over the slender stock of viands his wife had just placed on the table. The mans appearance was in strict keeping with his surroundings. The cabin in which he lived and everything it contained told of the most abject[Pg 6] poverty. The building, which was made of rough, unhewn logs, could boast of but one room and a loft, to which access was gained by a ladder fastened against the wall. It had no floor and no windows, all the light being admitted through a dilapidated door, which every gust of wind threatened to shake from its hinges, and the warmth being supplied by an immense fire-place with a stick chimney, which occupied nearly the whole of one end of the cabin. There were no chairs to be seenthe places of these useful articles being supplied by empty nail-kegs and blocks of wood; and neither were there any bedsa miserable shake-down in one corner being the best in this line that the cabin could afford. Everything looked as if it were about to fall to pieces. Even the rough board table on which the dinner was placed would have tumbled over, had it not been propped up against the wall. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 56676
Author: Castlemon, Harry
Release Date: Mar 4, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English