The Novels, Tales, And Sketches of J.M. Barrie .. V. 6
The book The Novels, Tales, And Sketches of J.M. Barrie .. V. 6 was written by author Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937 Here you can read free online of The Novels, Tales, And Sketches of J.M. Barrie .. V. 6 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Novels, Tales, And Sketches of J.M. Barrie .. V. 6 a good or bad book?
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He paused on the Coffin Brig, which is one long narrow stone ; and along the funnel of the double dykes he sent the lonely whisper, '' Elspeth, are you there *? " He tried to shout it, but no boy could shout there after nightfall in the Painted Lady's time, and when the words had travelled only a little way along the double dykes, they came whining back to him, like a dog despatched on uncanny work. He heard no other sound save the burn stealing on tiptoe from an evil place, and the uneasy rust...ling of tree-tops, and his own breathing. The Coffin Brig remains, but the double dykes have fallen bit by bit into the burn, and the path they made safe is again as naked as when the Kingoldrum Jacobites filed along it, and sweer they were, to the support of the Pretender. It traverses a ridge and is streaked with slippery beech-roots which like to fiing you off your feet, on the one side into a black burn twenty feet be- low, on the other down a pleasant slope. The double dykes were built by a farmer fond of his dram, to stop the tongue of a water-kelpie which lived in a pool below and gave him a turn every 192 THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME night he staggered home by shouting " Drunk again, Peewitbrae !
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