Has anyone read a book called "The Haunters
of the Silences"? It is very old, published in 1906. I have a copy
that has come down from my mother. The author is Charles G. D. Roberts,
the illustrator is Charles Livingston Bull. All of the stories are about
different animals, told from their prospective. In the chapter called "A
Stranger to the Wild", the main character is a white Spanish Barb stallion that
is being shipped to Canada on a three-masted schooner. The schooner wrecks
on rocks off the coast of Gaspe and the stallion is plunged into the sea.
The rest of the story relates how he swims ashore and what he does after
that. Beautiful book. Mine is tattered and needs re-binding, but it
is a treasure.
Speaking of hard luck stories, how many of us read Snowman??? I must have
read it a dozen times. Once when I was cleaning a storage room, I found a
battered old copy of that book. I had to sit down right then and there and
read it again.
I really liked a little known book called, Not on a White Horse.
It not only had horses in it but it is also a story about becoming a
teenager and alcoholic father. It was really close to home at the time
I read it. I still keep it on my shelf and am considering naming a
horse or one of my kids after the main character, Rhiannon.
Jen
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