THE CROOKED STICK, OR, POLLIE'S PROBATION
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THE CROOKED STICK, OR, POLLIE'S PROBATION (ebook)

ROLF BOLDREWOOD

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Excerpt: "The scene, a limitless stretch of plain—its wearisome monotony feebly broken by belts of timber or an infrequent pine-ridge. The earth adust. A hopeless, steel-blue sky. The atmosphere stagnated, breezeless. The forest tribes all dumb. The Wannonbah mail-coach toiling over the furrows of a sandhill, walled in by a pine thicket."

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