Red Blood and Blue
Harrison Robertson
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, )
Excerpt from Red Blood and BlueThe electric whir of fifty wings; the brown covey's level flight, as a charge of canister shot; a flash from a quickly raised gun, and then a tanned, sturdily-stepping boy, after having noted where the flushed quails had sunk again into the yellow sedge, made his way to his spoil, which, with one last tremor, was lying on the grass.The boy picked up the bird, holding it in his palm and inspecting its plump beauty, the gleam of the hunter in his eyes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.