The Spell of the Bush (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Spell of the Bush Under a sky of skim-milk blue the grey wilderness of stony "rises" stretched on every side. The grass bleached by drought, was white and dead. The trees, with their dull-green leaves and ashen trunks, gave nd relief to the eye in the dreary expanse. And over everything silence: the stealthy silence of the Bush, that seems ever to be waiting, and listening. A horseman appeared on one of the rises and paused there a while, looming gigantic against the skyline. For all.there was of sound or motion, he and his horse might have been the only living things in that I enealyptian waste. 0'Carroll was looking around with haggard eyes. Me had spent his first day in the Bush trying to get away from those relentless rises, and still they mocked at him - as like to his tired gaze as waves of ocean. Tortured with thirst, he was battling with the paralysing self-distrust that grips when sense of direction is gone. His horse, a splendid blood bay with black mane and tail, pawed the ground and shook his head now and then like a human being in doubt and pain. Impatient, he turned and brushed his rider's leg with his nozzle, and started forward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.