Orpah

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Excerpt from Orpah: A Religious and Historical Novel With the Principal Scenes in Missouri, Immediately Preceeding, During and Following the Great Civil War It was one of those delightful days in October, away back in the early forties, when the Indian summer haze filled the air with its calm repose, and the silken, silvery cobwebs bound the two fences of the lane together, that Thomas Martin stood in the door of his grimy smithy in a deep revery. His active mind was far away in the New West, in response to a roving disposition inherited from his father. The routine of farm work, in which he engaged in summer, had grown dull, and the ring of the hammer and anvil had less music for his ear than formerly, the blood in his father's veins, which had sent him to the four corners of the earth, coursed warmly in his. The familiar screech of the stage-coach horn, with the daily mail from Wilmington to Dover, came vibrant through the lazy air, waking Mr. Martin from his wandering day-dreams. "I want a shoe nailed on, and I want it quick, " sang out the driver, as the lumbering old vehicle came to a sudden halt. 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.