A Wasted Crime A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Wasted Crime: A Novel Hoggetp's green may have been green once upon a time; but if ever that was so, it was more years back than the oldest inhabitant could remember. For many and many a year now the whole land scape has been overrun by the black armies of labor, the entrails of the earth have been rifled in the search for coal and iron, and the surface is covered with huge mounds of refuse. Weedy pools of old rain-water fester in the dingy hollows between the artificial hills. Here and there a slimy canal - the surface of which is iridescent with floating oil and tar - divides the country, and slow barges, laden with coal and pig-iron, are drawn along by lazy horses, driven by picturesque rascals, whose speech is a min gling of many rustic dialects. 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.