Chillagoe Charlie (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Chillagoe Charlie Nigger made no audible reply - his throat was too dry - but he wagged his tail cheerily. He was a dog of no particular family whose entire interest in life was centred in his master's doings, and in chasing, catching, and killing all the iguanas and snakes which crossed the blistering path in front of them. And it was hot. A tropical sun straight overhead poured down its merciless rays, turning the soft soil of the country into what more closely resembled hot ash from a furnace. The shimmering lime bluffs, too, Which, rising to a height of about four hundred feet, dotted the land like mighty sentinels, ¿ung back the heat from their roasted sides like the walls of a great oven, or the concave faces of a series of gigantic burning mirrors. The country was baked, and burnt, and actually cracking with the heat it was parching for water which would not come until the annual thunder storms worked their way over the ranges from the. 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.