| The Magic Walking Stick: Large Print Contributor(s): Buchan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798643661696 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - General - Fiction | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.56 lbs) 100 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: WHEN Bill came back for long-leave that autumn half, he had before him a complicated programme of entertainment. Thomas, the keeper, whom he revered more than anyone else in the world, was to take him in the afternoon to try for a duck in the big marsh called Alemoor. In the evening Hallowe'en was to be celebrated in the nursery with his small brother Peter, and he was to be permitted to come down to dinner, and to sit up afterwards until ten o'clock. Next day, which was Sunday, would be devoted to wandering about with Peter, hearing from him all the appetising home news, and pouring into his greedy ears the gossip of the foreign world of school. On Monday morning, after a walk with the dogs, he was to motor to London, lunch with Aunt Alice, and then, after a noble tea, return to school in time for lock-up.This seemed to Bill to be all that could be desired in the way of excitement. But he did not know just how exciting that long-leave was destined to be.The first shadow of a cloud appeared after luncheon, when he had changed into knickerbockers and Thomas and the dogs were waiting by the gun-room door. Bill could not find his own proper stick. It was a long hazel staff, given him by the second stalker at Glenmore the year before-a staff rather taller than Bill, a glossy hazel, with a shapely polished crook, and without a ferrule, like all good stalking-sticks. |
