The Quest of the Silver Fleece - Paperback - 9781515354383

Night fell. The red waters of the swamp grew sinister and sullen. The tall pines lost their slimness and stood in wide blurred blotches all across the way, and a great shadowy bird arose, wheeled and melted, murmuring, into the black-green sky. The boy wearily dropped his heavy bundle and stood still, listening as the voice of crickets split the shadows and made the silence audible. A tear wandered down his brown cheek. They were at supper now, he whispered-the father and old mother, away back yonder beyond the night. They were far away; they would never be as near as once they had been, for he had stepped into the world. And the cat and Old Billy-ah, but the world was a lonely thing, so wide and tall and empty! And so bare, so bitter bare! Somehow he had never dreamed of the world as lonely before; he had fared forth to beckoning hands and luring, and to the eager hum of human voices, as of some great, swelling music.

• | Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Aug 04, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 124 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1515354385
• | ISBN-13: 9781515354383