{"product_id":"the-portygee-joseph-c-lincoln-9781515206132","title":"The Portygee","description":"Excerpt from The Portygee: A Novel \u003cbr\u003eOverhead the clouds cloaked the sky; a ragged cloak it was, and, here and there, a star shone through a hole, to be obscured almost instantly as more cloud tatters were hurled across the rent. The pines threshed on the hill tops. The bare branches of the wild-cherry and silver leaf trees scraped and rattled and tossed. And the wind, the raw, chilling December wind, driven in, wet and salty, from the sea, tore over the dunes and brown uplands and across the frozen salt-meadows, screamed through the telegraph wires, and made the platform of the dismal South Harniss railway station the lonesomest, coldest, darkest and most miserable spot on the face of the earth. \u003cbr\u003eAt least that was the opinion of the seventeen-year-old boy whom the down train - on time for once and a wonder - had just deposited upon that platform. He would not have discounted the statement one iota. The South Harniss station platform was the most miserable spot on earth and he was the most miserable human being upon it. And this last was probably true, for there were but three other humans upon that platform and, judging by externals, they seemed happy enough. One was the station agent, who was just entering the building preparatory to locking up for the night, and the others were Jim Young, driver of the \"depot wagon,\" and Doctor Holliday, the South Harniss \"homeopath,\" who had been up to a Boston hospital with a patient and was returning home. \u003cbr\u003eAbout the Publisher \u003cbr\u003eForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph C. Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1515206130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781515206132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.64d","brand":"Joseph C. Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153724748031,"sku":"9781515206132","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc32c72d-4f90-4178-90a4-ae272326ef0c.jpg?v=1770785406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-portygee-joseph-c-lincoln-9781515206132","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}