Excerpt from The Queen of Sheba Edward Lynde soon passed beyond the lim its of the town, and was ascending a steep hill, on the crest of which he proposed to take a farewell survey Of the picturesque port throw ing off its gauzy counterpane of sea-fog. The wind blew blithely on this hilltop; it filled his lungs and exhilarated him like champagne; he set spur to the gaunt, bony mare, and, with a flourish of his hand to the peaked roof of the Nautilus Bank, dashed Off at a speed of not less than four miles an hour for it was any thing but an Arabian courser which Lynde had hired of honest Deacon Twombly. She was not a handsome animal either - yellow in tint and of the texture of an ancestral hair-trunk, With a plebeian head, and mysterious develop ments of muscle on the hind legs. She was not a horse for fancy riding; but she had her good points - she had a great many points of one kind and another - among Which was her perfect adaptability to rough country roads and the sort of work now required of her. 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.