Claws by Archibald Rutledge,Stephen Chesley,Jim Casada,Ben McC. Moïse

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By Archibald Rutledge,Stephen Chesley,Jim Casada,Ben McC. Moïse

Unseen by way of readers for a century, Archibald Rutledge's tale "Claws" is a fast paced event story of a tender boy, Paul, misplaced within the foreboding terrain of Spencer's Swamp, the area of the amazing bobcat Claws, that's deftly evading hounds and hunters alike. while Paul and Claws stumble upon each other at a dangerous creek crossing, Rutledge's mastery of outside storytelling shines via in each evocative word.

The brief tale "Claws" used to be written for booklet in an early twentieth-century boy's journal and was once first accrued within the privately published Eddy Press variation of previous Plantation Days (c. 1913). restricted to only a couple of hundred copies, the Eddy Press version is very prized by way of Rutledge creditors and comprises 5 stories—"Claws," "The Doom of Ravenswood," "The Egret's Plumes," "The center of Regal," and "The Ocean's Menace"—not present in the extra extensively to be had 1921 Stokes variation of previous Plantation Days.

A venture of the arts Council SC reaping rewards the South Carolina booklet competition, this new version of Claws is illustrated in good-looking charcoal etchings by way of Southern artist Stephen Chesley. Award-winning open air author and famous Rutledge student Jim Casada offers the volume's creation and retired South Carolina conservation officer Ben McC. Moïse deals an afterword.

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