J.S. Chase

J.S. Chase

" The afternoon was delightful... "

8th, August, 2018
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Coast Trails

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chase, who occasionally expressed the desire to paint,
here, does just that; and, as his particular facility, mixes
emotive description - ' delightful, splendid; ' elegant
literary reference - ' Kiplingesque sort of wind; ' vivid
narrative - ' the gulls strained and screamed, ' and his
always treasured, wry humor as he describes his pony
' rounding up the cattle. ' What a scene to behold and
ponder!

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" The afternoon was delightful, with a clear sun and a Kiplingesque
sort of wind; and Anton, relieved for once of impediments, bethought
himself of his Arizona youth, and was bent upon rounding up the cattle
he saw on the hillsides. The ocean was of a splendid, windy purple,
though far to seaward the fog lay furled along the horizon in a band
of pearly grey. Quail whistled in the brushy gullies, and overhead the
gulls strained and screamed against the wind. "

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