The Beginning of Wisdom
The Beginning of Wisdom
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Triangle or eloping on a calico pony with Mamie, the Dance Hall Queen . . • ** " You ask about Frickett and the country around it — •the only simile I can think of is the more horizontal Digitized by Google COLD MOUNTAINS 155 part of the Bump the Bumps at Coney Island, much the eame configuration and exactly the same dirty red or light-beer-colored ground. The only tennis-court in the place — at one of the young Sons of the Mine's grand- pianoed, mission-fumitured. Long Island bungalows — slant...s' up hill about twenty degrees and if you paste a ball over one of the backstops it rolls down two hun- dred feet into a gully. They have had to build the base- ball-park at Frickett Junction, five miles down, on the only piece of comparatively flat ground in three counties, and that piece is due to an earthquake or some such natural jest and was never intended by the De- signing Architect. . . . The town is a sand-pitted half- mile of frame shacks and tents, nothing over two stories, but a pressed-brick bank and a graft post-office whose imitation marble pillars glitter at the eternal sun like a set of false teeth.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Triangle or eloping on a calico pony with Mamie, the Dance Hall Queen . . • ** " You ask about Frickett and the country around it — •the only simile I can think of is the more horizontal Digitized by Google COLD MOUNTAINS 155 part of the Bump the Bumps at Coney Island, much the eame configuration and exactly the same dirty red or light-beer-colored ground. The only tennis-court in the place — at one of the young Sons of the Mine's grand- pianoed, mission-fumitured. Long Island bungalows — slant...s' up hill about twenty degrees and if you paste a ball over one of the backstops it rolls down two hun- dred feet into a gully. They have had to build the base- ball-park at Frickett Junction, five miles down, on the only piece of comparatively flat ground in three counties, and that piece is due to an earthquake or some such natural jest and was never intended by the De- signing Architect. . . . The town is a sand-pitted half- mile of frame shacks and tents, nothing over two stories, but a pressed-brick bank and a graft post-office whose imitation marble pillars glitter at the eternal sun like a set of false teeth.
What to read after The Beginning of Wisdom?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Benét Stephen Vincent to read onlineMoreLess
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