The King of the Golden River, or the Black Brothers

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Excerpt from The King of the Golden River, or the Black Brothers: A Legend of StiriaThings went on in this manner for a long time. At last came a very wet summer, and everything went wrong in the country around. The hay had hardly been got in when the haystacks were ¿oated bodily down to the sea by an inundation, the vines were cut to pieces with the hail, the corn was all killed by a black blight, only in the Treasure Valley, as usual, all was safe. As it had rain when there was rain nowhere else, so it had sun when there was sun nowhere else. Everybody came to buy corn at the farm, and went away pouring male dictions on the Black Brothers. They asked what they liked, and got it, except from the poor people, who could only beg, and several Of whom were starved at their very door without the slightest regard.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.