Ledge Bald Face (1 results)

1921. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 212pp. Color-illustrated boards. Frontispiece, illustrations. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper and the dust jacket is lightly edgeworn at the top with two tiny closed tears. "The population of Lonesome Water - some forescore families in all - acknowledged one sole fly in the oinment of its self-satisfaction. Slowly, reluctantly, it had been brought to confess that the breed of its pigs was not the best on earth. They were small, wiry pigs, over-leisurely of growth, great feeders, yet hard to fatten; and in the end they brought but an inferior price in the far-off market town by the sea, to which their frozen, stiff-legged arses were hauled on sleds over the winter's snow" - from "The Black Board of Lonesome Water". Includes Cock-Crow, The Aigrette, The Black Boar of Lonesome Water, The Brothers of the Yoke, The Cabin in the Flood, The Calling of the Lop-Horned Bull, The Dog That Saved the Bridge, The Ledge on Bald Face, The Morning of the Silver Frost & The Trailers. Publisher series: Out-Of-Doors Stories. (Fiction, Canadian, Animal Stories, Fiction--Canada, Natural History).