Author(s): Hesba Stretton
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 150
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-08-07
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 8mm
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Illustrations: 10 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white

Excerpt from A Night and a Day: Also Apple-Tree Court, and the Worth of a Baby But upon the outskirts of this despoiled country the riches that lie underground run into scattered veins of minerals, that pierce under the green mead ows and golden cornfields still smiling undisturbed in the sunshine. Here there is less roughness and ugliness and more of nature. The pitmen, when they come up from their dingy work, can lift their eyes to the clear sky above, and to the hills not far away clothed with leafy trees. They Can cultivate their-own little gardens, and grow southernwood and sweetwilliam to wear ln their buttonholes on Sundays. In some places there is only one shaft. 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.