Our Daily Bread (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Our Daily BreadBehind the sandy hill the sun is rising. High up the pines are bathed in red light, every needle of the rugged branches is sharply defined against the glowing, morning sky. A keen wind blows, and ¿utters the grey-white moss hanging from the old trunks, and looking like ragged beards. Shifting lights pass over the scanty grass, which hardly covers the knotted roots, golden rays dart here and there, become longer and longer, their light warmer and warmer.Down below, in the endless distance of the fields, the dawn is still cold and grey. Steaming mists rise out of the hollows and trail their white webs over the ploughed lands till they break against the blue wall of the distant wood and disperse.The whitewashed gables of the cottages in the village street look ghostly, only the high walls of the church show a warmer light. The wind shakes the chestnut-trees at the church gate, so that a shower of damp, yellow leaves rains down, an acrid autumnal smell rises from the falling foliage.A ¿ock of ducks swims in the pool in the street, noiselessly, slowly, as if asleep, one follows the other, drawing a lighter ray after it in the dark water. Now the drake shoots bolt upright, beats the water with its wings, scattering the drops far around, and the whole ¿ock breaks out into a loud gabble.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.