Cariboo Road (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cariboo RoadFor some moments she remained thus perched, silent, thoughtful, so motionless that her buxom figure might have been raised amongst the pale green regiments of young cabbages that were her special pride, she did not turn when her husband staggered from the house beneath a gigantic, tightly roped bundle, she gave no heed when Mary, their adopted daughter, closed the last window in the last empty room, locked the front door and stood waiting, key in hand. These two glanced at her, at each other, said nothing.Far below them a toy steamer was lying against the long timber wharf of Stanleytown, from it there sprang a jet of steam, four seconds later echoed a faint, throaty bellow, and at this Ma Bowers straightened up, brushed her skirts with a characteristic gesture, returned to earth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.