Excerpt from Around the Golden Deep: A Romance of the Sierras School was out at the little red school-house, and the wild - voiced children went noisily down the village street, stopping here and there to note the new sights about town since their confinement in school, or to chat in little groups before separating to go home. But the neat little school-mistress sat at her desk with her hands folded, just as she did when the last careless footstep sounded down the stairs, motionless still, and thinking, with a sad, dreamy look in her eyes. Home What would it be to her to go home To Sit cosily again with Aunt Robinson and the girls, and John too; to see the Old house with its rough, weather-stained walls, its one bright patch of white wash gleaming through the green trees, - she won dered if even that were there yet; and then the cows, and the lazy Old horses, Tip the dog, and even that around the golden deep. 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.