Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
By R. M. Ballantyne
Length10h 25m
About this audiobook
(Excerpt): "Every one has heard of those ponies—those shaggy, chubby, innocent-looking little creatures—for which the world is indebted, we suppose, to Shetland. Well, once on a time, one of the most innocent-looking, chubbiest, and shaggiest of Shetland ponies—a dark brown one—stood at the door of a mansion in the west-end of London. It was attached to a wickerwork vehicle which resembled a large clothes-basket on small wheels. We do not mean, of course, that the pony was affectionately attached to it. No; the attachment was involuntary and unavoidable, by reason of a brand-new yellow leather harness with brass buckles. It objected to the attachment, obviously, for it sidled this way, and straddled that way, and whisked its enormous little tail, and tossed its rotund little head, and stamped its ridiculously small feet; and champed its miniature bit, as if it had been a war-horse of the largest size, fit to carry a Wallace, a Bruce, or a Richard of the Lion-heart, into the midst of raging battle. And no wonder; for many months had not elapsed since that brown creature had kicked up its little heels, and twirled its tail, and shaken its shaggy mane in all the wild exuberance of early youth and unfettered freedom on the heather hills of its native island."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length10 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 9, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
17Chapter Sixteen.
2Chapter One.
18Chapter Seventeen.
3Chapter Two.
19Chapter Eighteen.
4Chapter Three.
20Chapter Nineteen.
5Chapter Four.
21Chapter Twenty.
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6Chapter Five.
22Chapter Twenty One.
7Chapter Six.
23Chapter Twenty Two.
8Chapter Seven.
24Chapter Twenty Three.
9Chapter Eight.
25Chapter Twenty Four.
10Chapter Nine.
26Chapter Twenty Five.
11Chapter Ten.
27Chapter Twenty Six.
12Chapter Eleven.
28Chapter Twenty Seven.
13Chapter Twelve.
29Chapter Twenty Eight.
14Chapter Thirteen.
30Chapter Twenty Nine.
15Chapter Fourteen.
31Chapter Thirty.
16Chapter Fifteen.
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