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The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins Volume 1 by Robert Paltock

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Author: Robert Paltock
Number of Pages: 64 pages
Published Date: 20 May 2012
Publisher: Not Avail
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d39ttiideeq0ys.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/3472/9781347262269.jpg
Type: PDF
ISBN: 9781236293305
File size: 10 Mb
Download Link: The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins Volume 1
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...lays in a store against the dark weather--Hears voices--His thoughts thereon--Persuades himself it was a dream--Hears them again--Determines to see if any one lodged in the rock--Is satisfied there is nobody--Observations on-what he saw--Finds a strong weed like whipcord--Makes a drag-net--Lengthens it--Catches a monster--Its description--Makes oil of it. HAD now well stored my grotto with all sorts of winter provisions, and feeling the weather grow very cold, I expected and waited patiently for the total darkness. I went little abroad, and employed myself within doors endeavouring to fence against the approaching extremity of the cold. For this purpose I prepared a quantity of rushes, which being very dry, I spread them smoothly on the floor of my bed-chamber a good thickness, and over them I laid my mattress. Then I made a double sheet of the boat's awning or sail, that I had brought to cover my goods; and having skewered together several of the jackets and clothes I found in the chest, of them I made a coverlid; so that I lay very commodiously, and made very long nights of it now the dark season was set in. As I lay awake one night, or day, I know not which, I "very plainly heard the sound of several human voices, and sometimes very loud; but though I could easily distinguish the articulations, I could not understand the least word that was said; nor did the voices seem at all to me like such as I had anywhere heard before, but much softer and more musical. This startled me, and I rose immediately, slipping on my clothes and taking my gun in my hand (which I always kept charged, being my constant travelling companion) and my cutlass. Thus equipped, I walked into my ante-chamber, where I heard the voices much plainer, till after some little time they...

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