Authorship A Tale Author:John Neal General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Original Publisher: Published by Gray and Bowen Description: Bound in red-brown cloth, with over-all leaf pattern; fragment of paper label on spine. Subjects: American fiction Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there m... more »ay be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER HI. TOUR OF THE ISLE . . . HOME . . . LABOR DISTINGUISHED FROM EXERCISE . . . GRAVE-YARD. So, leaving those who had no such dread of the sea, as I now began to have, nor any such dread of sleep as I thought I soon should have, to pursue their search after smooth white pebbles and other like wonders of the deep, I reascended the cliff, called the boy away from his beer, tumbled into the gig as if it were a wherry, and left him to steer whithersoever he would, until he drew up and asked me if I had not better leave him where he was, and walk round by a little church and a cottage or two, that I saw huddled up together among the trees a great way below the wood. It was quite impossible to stay in the gig after one look at the entrance to the cool shadowy hollow where these collages were concealed -- a green cave, a narrow path-way, a thatched-roof, and large trees were before me ; but they were not long before me, I promise you. Ere the boy could make me understand where I was to meet him, I had escaped through the cloudy path-way and arrived at a large barn -- the very counterpart of the barns that we have in America, where we never think of leaving either hay or wheat exposed to the open air. Attracted by the familiar noise of the flail, I drew near and saw a sight worth going a voyage for, one that I never shall forget, I am persuaded -- never -- the longest day I have to live. I stopped -- 1 stood still -- every thing ...« less