The book Swallow Barn, Or, a Soujourn in the Old Dominion was written by author John Pendleton Kennedy Here you can read free online of Swallow Barn, Or, a Soujourn in the Old Dominion book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Swallow Barn, Or, a Soujourn in the Old Dominion a good or bad book?
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It must have been a look of droll, waggish, solemn, silent wonder, which, for the time, leaves it a matter of perfect doubt whether it is to terminate in a laugh or a cry. In the first place, the beautiful ribbon cas- loade was clean gone. In the second, there were all the little tus- socks of the swamp, showing their small green heads above the surface of the water, which would hardly have covered one's shoe- top ; and there were all the native shrubs of the marsh, bending forwards, in scatter...ed groups, like a set of rose bushes that had been visited by a shower ; dripping wet, and having their slender stalks tangled with weeds ; and there was, towards the middle, a little line of rivulet meandering down to the edge of the dam, and then holding its unambitious course parallel with the breast- work, deploying to the left, where it entered the race, and tripping along gently, down to the very seat of the bull-frog. " Hoity, toity," cried my grand uncle, after he had paused long enough to find speech, " here is some mistake in this matter 1" MY GRAND UNCLE.
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