B. M. Bower
The Long Shadow
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664630421
Table of Contents
" Till Hell's a Skating-rink. "
"When I Lift My Eyebrows This Way."
A Winter at the Double-Crank .
Oh, Where Have You Been, Charming Billy?
CHAPTER I.
Charming Billy Has a Visitor.
The wind, rising again as the sun went down, mourned lonesomely at the northwest corner of the cabin, as if it felt the desolateness of the barren, icy hills and the black hollows between, and of the angry red sky with its purple shadows lowering over the unhappy land—and would make fickle friendship with some human thing. Charming Billy, hearing the crooning wail of it, knew well the portent and sighed. Perhaps he, too, felt something of the desolateness without and perhaps he, too, longed for some human companionship.
He sent a glance of half-conscious disapproval around the untidy cabin. He had been dreaming aimlessly of a place he had seen not so long ago; a place where the stove was black and shining, with a fire crackling cheeringly inside and a teakettle with straight,