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Two Sailor Lads: A Story Of Stirring Adventures On Sea And Land
Gordon Stables
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Beschreibung
Excerpt: "e;There is no more beautiful bay than that of Methlin on all the wild west shores of Scotland; there is no quainter or more old-fashioned little town than the fishing village that clusters around its shores, its wee little whitewashed cottages half hidden in the green of waving elders and drooping silver birch trees. Behind the village is a wealth of woodland, stretching for miles away up the valley, between hills so high that at sunrise they cast their darkling shadows far across the sea. But our story opens at eventide. The sun has already gone down behind the waves, leaving a sky and sea of such gorgeous and startling colours-such a mad mixture of crimson, orange, purple, and grey-as never surely was seen on artist's canvas. And not only from the water, but even from the wide expanse of wet sand, are these colours reflected. The sea is very calm, yet the Atlantic Ocean, that swells and heaves and breaks along this coast, never falls quite asleep; and if you glance to-night across the sands at the far-receding tide, you may note long moving lines of orange, and hear the gentle boom of the breaking wavelets."e;
