The Garden of Dreams (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Garden of Dreams With long, swinging steps the man skirted the little valley and, facing the rising sun took the road to the right that wound upward over the mountain. There marched, visualized before him, recollections of other times, when, bareheaded even as now, freckled-faced, and often, dirty, he had trotted happily along intent on the morning's business - the filling, perhaps, of his shiny pail with the wild strawberries which grew - scarlet drops of concentrated lusciousness beneath their protecting leaves of green - in the wooded outskirts of old Al Somer's meadow. Almost he was tempted to turn aside, to slip down through the fields at his left in search of them, until he remembered that they would not be ripe for a month or more. "The spring is late this year," he murmured regretfully. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.