«The Toll House» by Robert Louis Stevenson
«The Toll House» by Robert Louis Stevenson
English | ISBN: 9783990836989 | MP3@64 kbps | 13 min | 6.2 MB
English | ISBN: 9783990836989 | MP3@64 kbps | 13 min | 6.2 MB
The Toll House, standing alone by the wayside under nodding pines, with its streamlet and water-tank; its backwoods, toll-bar, and well trodden croquet ground; the ostler standing by the stable door, chewing a straw; a glimpse of the Chinese cook in the back parts; and Mr. Hoddy in the bar, gravely alert and serviceable, and equally anxious to lend or borrow books; dozed all day in the dusty sunshine, more than half asleep. There were no neighbours, except the Hansons up the hill. The traffic on the road was infinitesimal; only, at rare intervals, a couple in a waggon, or a dusty farmer on a springboard, toiling over "the grade" to that metropolitan hamlet, Calistoga; and, at the fixed hours, the passage of the stages.