SELECTED STORIES VOLUME 2; THE HORLA M

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ..."This is my last will and testament." MOUNT OLIVET WHEN the men of the small port of Garandou, in the Bay of Pisca, between Marseilles and Toulon, in Provence, saw the boat of the Abbe Vilbois returning from his fishing expedition, they came to the beach to assist him. The abbe was alone in it, and he was rowing like a true mariner, with rare energy, in spite of his fifty-eight years. With his sleeves rolled up over his muscular arms, his cassock drawn up between his knees, and some buttons open over his breast, his three-cornered hat on the bench beside him, and wearing a white bell-shaped hat, he looked like a substantial ecclesiastic of the southern countries, made for adventures rather than for saying mass. From time to time he looked behind and gauged the point of landing, and then continued to row, with strong, rhythmic and methodic strokes, to demonstrate once again to these poor sailors of the Midi how the men from the North swim. The boat, urged-forward by his oars, finally touched the sand and glided over it as if to trace a line with its keel; then it stopped short, and the five men who were watching the cure, approached, evidently pleased to see him back. "Well, Monsieur le cure, have you had good luck?" asked one with a strong Provencal accent. The Abbe Vilbois drew in his oars, took off his bell-shaped hat and put on his three-cornered one, unrolled his sleeves, buttoned his cassock, and having thus resumed his wonted bearing and ap-pearance, he replied proudly: "Yes, very good, three red-snappers, two eels and some sunfish." The five fishermen, hanging over the edge of the boat, critically examined the dead fish, the fat snappers, the flat-headed eels, hideous sea-serpents, and the violet sunfish, with zigzag gol...
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