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Harry Castlemon
The Young Game-Warden
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338081964
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CHAPTER I. SILAS MORGAN.
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"I do think in my soul that of all the mean things a white man has to do, hauling wood on a hot day like this is the very meanest."
The speaker was Silas Morgan—a tall, broad-shouldered man, whose tattered garments and snail-like movements proclaimed him to be the very personification of indolence and shiftlessness.
As he spoke, he took off his hat and drew his shirt-sleeve across his dripping forehead, while the lazy old horse, which had pulled the rickety wood-rack up the long, steep hill from the beach, lowered his head, dropped his ears, and fell fast asleep.