1937
OF MICE AND MEN
by John Steinbeck
Copyright John Steinbeck, 1937.
Copyright renewed by John Steinbeck, 1965.
Published by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin
Books USA Inc.
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A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas...
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1937
OF MICE AND MEN
by John Steinbeck
Copyright John Steinbeck, 1937.
Copyright renewed by John Steinbeck, 1965.
Published by arrangement with Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin
Books USA Inc.
ONE
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to
the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
The water is warm too,
for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight
before reaching the narrow pool.
On one side of the river the golden
foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains,
but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh
and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures
the debris of the winter s flooding; and sycamores with mottled,
white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool.
On the
sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a
lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them.
Rabbits come
out of the brush to sit on
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