Peter

Peter
ISBN-10
1530475805
ISBN-13
9781530475803
Series
Peter
Pages
326
Language
English
Published
2016-04-25
Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Author
Francis Hopkinson Smith

Description

"[...]the collection of old shoes, tin cans, broken bottles and battered hats which successive generations had hurried into the narrow un-get-at-able space that lay between the two structures. Indeed the only thing inside or out of this time-worn building which the most fertile of imaginations could consider as being at all up to date was the clock. Not its face-that was old-timey enough with its sun, moon and stars in blue and gold, and the name of the Liverpool maker engraved on its enamel; nor its hands, fiddle-shaped and stiff, nor its case, which always reminded me of a coffin set up on end awaiting burial-but its strike. Whatever divergences the Exeter allowed itself in its youth, or whatever [...]".

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