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Excerpt from Aline of the Grand Woods: A Story of Louisiana Full in the glare of the hot June sun stood the store of Monsieur Etienne Landry, its weatherbeaten sides seeming to give forth smoke in the intense heat. The china tree in front, its leaves withered and drooping, bent its branches earthward, as though after a long struggle with heat and drought, it bowed its head to the inevitable. Underneath the store porch a ragged hound, driven there for shelter, panted desperately with lolling tongue and bloodshot eyes, too hot even to snap at the myriad of flies which buzzed about him. Within the store it was cool and dark, and on entering one was greeted by an odor, mixed indeed, but not unpleasant - an odor as though someone had mixed a great many groceries together, and had then stirred them vigorously. 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.