Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn
Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn
By R. M. Ballantyne
13 Jul, 2020
Brief Extract: "The hour was midnight. This fact was indicated by the family clock—a Dutch one, with a face which had once been white, but was now become greenish-yellow, probably from horror at the profanity of the artist who had painted a basket
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Brief Extract: "The hour was midnight. This fact was indicated by the family clock—a Dutch one, with a face which had once been white, but was now become greenish-yellow, probably from horror at the profanity of the artist who had painted a basket of unrecognisable fruit above it, an irate cockatoo below it, and a blue church with a pink steeple as near to the centre of it as the hands would admit of." Less