A Red-Headed Family (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Red-Headed Family A rivulet, slow, narrow, and deep, passed near the front of the cabin, with a faint, dreamy murmur and crept darkling into the swamp between dense brakes of cane, and bay-bushes. "Ye-as, seh, I ken mek er bee-line to that air ole pine snag. Hit taint more'n er half er mile out yender, " continued my host and volunteer guide, as we climbed the little worm-fence that inclosed the house, "but I alius called 'em air birds woodcocks, didn't know 'at they lied any other name, alius thut 'at a Peckwood wer' a leetle, tinty, stripedy feller, never hyeard er them air big ole woodcocks a bein' called Peckwoods." He led and I followed into the damp, moss-scented shadows of the swamp, under cypress and live-oak and through slender fringes of cane. We floundered across the coffee-colored stream, the water cooling my India-rubber wading-boots above the knees, climbed over great walls of fallen tree-boles, crept under low-hanging festoons of wild vines, and at length found ourselves wading rather more than ankle-deep in one of those shallow cypress lakes of which the larger part of the Okefenokee region is formed. I thought it a very long half-mile before we reached a small tussock whereon grew, in the midst of a dense underbrush thicket, some enormous pine trees. "Ther', " said the guide, "thet air snag air the one. Sorter on ter tother side ye'll see the hole, 'bout twenty foot up. Kem yer, I'll show hit ter ye." 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.