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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Ethan Brand

Ethan Brand

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1985033623
ISBN13: 9781985033627
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 12 2018
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Bartram the lime-burner, a rough, heavy-looking man, begrimed with charcoal, sat watching his kiln at nightfall, while his little son played at building houses with the scattered fragments of marble, when, on the hill-side below them, they heard a roar of laughter, not mirthful, but slow, and even solemn, like a wind shaking the boughs of the forest. Father, what is that? asked the little boy, leaving his play, and pressing betwixt his father's knees. Oh, some drunken man, I suppose, answered the lime-burner; some merry fellow from the bar-room in the village, who dared not laugh loud enough within doors lest he should blow the roof of the house off. So here he is, shaking his jolly sides at the foot of Graylock. But, father, said the child, more sensitive than the obtuse, middle-aged clown, he does not laugh like a man that is glad. So the noise frightens me! Don't be a fool, child! cried his father, gruffly.

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