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"The House in the Water" from Charles G. D. Roberts. Canadian poet and prose writer who is known as the Father of Canadian Poetry (860-1943).

UPON the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stillness of the wilderness night, the stillness of vast, untraversed solitude. The Boy lifted his eyes and glanced across the thin reek of the camp-fire at Jabe... Read Full Overview

The house in the water. A book of animal stories (1908). This book, "The house in the water", by Roberts Charles George, is a replication of a book originally published before 1908. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close... Read Full Overview

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UPON the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stillness of the wilderness night, the stillness of vast, untraversed solitude. The Boy lifted his eyes and glanced across the thin reek of the camp-fire at Jabe... Read Full Overview

UPON the moonlit stillness came suddenly a far-off, muffled, crashing sound. Just once it came, then once again the stillness of the wilderness night, the stillness of vast, untraversed solitude. The Boy lifted his eyes and glanced across the thin reek of the camp-fire at Jabe... Read Full Overview

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