A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

A Kentucky Cardinal: A StoryAll this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no...
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Author: Allen, James Lane,1849-1925
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A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

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A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Allen, James Lane,1849-1925
Format: eBook
Language: English

A Kentucky Cardinal: A Story

All this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even the landscapes of frost on the window-panes did not melt a flower, and the little trees still keep their silvery boughs arched high above the jeweled avenues. During the afternoon a lean hare limped twice across the lawn, and there was not a creature stirring to chase it. Now the night is bitter cold, with no sounds outside but the cracking of the porches as they freeze tighter. Even the north wind seems grown too numb to move. I had determined to convert its coarse, big noise into something sweetas may often be done by a little art with the things of this lifeand so stretched a horse-hair above the opening between the window sashes; but the soul of my harp has departed. I hear but the comfortable roar and snap of hickory logs, at long intervals a deeper breath from the dog stretched on his side at my feet, and the crickets under the hearth-stones. They have to thank me for that nook. One chill afternoon I came upon a whole company of them on the western slope of a woodland mound, so lethargic that I thumped them repeatedly before they could so much as get their senses. There was a branch near by, and the smell of mint in the air, so that had they been young Kentuckians one might have had a clew to the situation. With an ear for winter minstrelsy, I brought two home in a handkerchief, and assigned them an elegant suite of apartments under a loose brick. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 11532
Author: Allen, James Lane
Release Date: Mar 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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