The Coward. a Novel of Society And the Field in 1863
The book The Coward. a Novel of Society And the Field in 1863 was written by author Morford, Henry, 1823-1881 Here you can read free online of The Coward. a Novel of Society And the Field in 1863 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Coward. a Novel of Society And the Field in 1863 a good or bad book?
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T." did not make his appearance : he had struck across, the Illinoisan said, with- out waiting for him, over the almost impassable fallen timber and through the spruce thickets, by the cross-path to the Pool. A few minutes more sufficed to re-seat the group in their wagons and to deposit them once more at the door of the Flume House, whence they took their way on foot, strag- gling in every picturesque variety of locomotion towards that equally-curious pendant of the Flume which is often missed... by those who visit the better-known wonder. The Pool lay all alone, uniil this somewhat numerous com- pany came to disturb its solitude. A singular object indeed — an exaggeration of all the other mountain amphitheatre fountains, nearly round, a score or more of yards in diameter, with the toe of the horse-shoe scooped out of a solid rock thirty or forty feet in height, smoothed and rounded as if cut THE COWARD. 277 by human hands, a bright, clear stream dashing down at that point, the rocks further away from the toe rising broken and jagged to the height of perhaps an hundred feet, and the mode of approach of the passengers a jagged line of ricketty steps, terribly perpendicular, sloping down from that highest point and presenting no temptations to the decrepit or the nervous.
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