Joseph Edward Badger eBooks
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Delaware Tomor, The Traitor Guide. E-book. Formato EPUB Joseph Edward Badger - Librorium Editions, 2021 -
Mid-afternoon of an oppressively hot and sultry day, in the year ’54.We call the reader’s attention to a scene, that, if not romantic, is at least attractive and interesting; a wagon-train of emigrants, as is attested by the quantity of driven stock—horses, cattle and sheep. The presence of women and children is still further evidence.It moved slowly and drearily along over the vast, almost barren stretch of level plain, as though the nearly spent day had been one of hard and unremitting toil. The horses or mules, their heads hanging down, with drooping ears and tails, their hides damp with sweat and covered with the fine sand cast upon the air by the trampling hoofs, or the slowly revolving wheels, scarcely heed the stinging lash or the impatient exclamation of their drivers.
The Texas Hawksor, The Strange Decoy. E-book. Formato EPUB Joseph Edward Badger - Librorium Editions, 2021 -
“Bah! for my part, I believe it sheer nonsense—nothing but a hoax.”“So said I until lately; but now I know there is something in it.”The sentences just noted were spoken in very dissimilar tones: the first one careless and slightly scoffing—the second low and earnest. Both speakers were young and of prepossessing appearance.The scene was an attractive one, though somewhat similar ones have been described time and time again. In fact it was the bivouac of a hunting party.One glance would decide this. The soiled and blood-stained garments of the half-score figures gathered around the cheerful, crackling fire, in attitudes of careless ease, for the most part with pipe in mouth, the half-picked bones and fragments of meat scattered profusely here and there, telling of a hearty meal just passed by. The horses, rudely hoppled, grazing eagerly hard-by, their sides still wet with sweat; the plentiful supply of rudely-butchered meat that hung suspended from the trees around, mostly of buffalo and deer, all told plainly that this was the bivouac of hunters, resting after a successful day’s chase.