The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith

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Excerpt from The Novels, Stories and Sketches of F. Hopkinson Smith: Colonel Carter and Other Tales of the SouthHE dinner was at the colonel's, an old fashioned, partly furnished, two story house nearly a century old which crouches down behind a larger and more modern dwelling front ing on Bedford Place within a stone's throw of the tall clock tower of Jefferson Market.The street entrance to this curious abode is marked by a swinging wooden gate opening into a narrow tunnel which dodges under the front house. It is an uncanny sort of passageway, mouldy and wet from a long-neglected leak overhead, and is lighted at night by a rusty lantern with dingy glass sides.On sunny days this gruesome tunnel frames from the street a delightful picture of a bit of the yard beyond, with the quaint colonial door and its three steps let down in a welcoming way.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.