Carnac's Folly
Book Description
Chapter I In the Days of Childhood CARNAC! Carnac! Come and catch, me, Carnac! It was a day of perfect summer and hope and happiness in the sweet, wild world behind the near woods and the far circle of sky and pine and hemlock. The voice that called was young and vibrant, and had in it the simple, true soul of things. It had the clearness of a bugle-call ample and full of life and all lifes possib...
MoreChapter I In the Days of Childhood CARNAC! Carnac! Come and catch, me, Carnac! It was a day of perfect summer and hope and happiness in the sweet, wild world behind the near woods and the far circle of sky and pine and hemlock. The voice that called was young and vibrant, and had in it the simple, true soul of things. It had the clearness of a bugle-call ample and full of life and all lifes possibilities. It laughed; it challenged; it decoyed. Carnac heard the summons and did his best to catch the girl in the woods by the tumbling stream, where he had for many an hour emptied out his wayward heart; where he had seen his fathers logs and timbers caught in jams, hunched up on rocky ledges, held by the prong of a rock, where mans purpose could, apparently, avail so little. Then he had watched the black-bearded river-drivers with their pike-poles and their levers loose the key-logs of the bunch, and the tumbling citizens of the woods and streams toss away down the current to the wider waters below.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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