Mount Desolation

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Excerpt from Mount Desolation: An Australian Romance The sun, a dull, red, angry ball of fire, was sinking slowly behind the jagged peaks of Mount Desolation, ¿ooding the great black rocks with an indescribable glory, and casting gaunt fantastic shadows on the plains below. The grasshoppers clicked loudly in the long grass, and the little lizards crept further out upon the granite ledges to escape the lengthening shadows. Above, in the steel-blue sky, Whirled ¿ocks of noisy parrots, while close to earth the air was filled with the hum of countless insects, all sighing, as it were, for the setting of that god which was their life. Shrill laughed the merry jackass the magpie chattered to its heart's content before it tucked its knowing head away beneath its wing the blue bird and the more pork had their say, the wombat crept from its hole to take a last peep, and the rabbit stopped in his head long ¿ight to look up at the great red god. The air, still warm, though tempered by approaching night. 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.