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A review by oldpondnewfrog
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
4.0
Such great wild-child childhood at the beginning—the children just roam free on their island, exploring and enjoying. The beginning is really five-star stuff.
"The stream which fed the bathing-hole ran into it down a gully through the bush which offered an enticing vista for exploring: but somehow the children did not often go up it very far. Every stone had to be turned over in the hope of finding crayfish: or if not, John had to take a sporting gun, which he bulleted with spoonfuls of water to shoot humming-birds on the wing, too tiny frail quarry for any soldier projectile."
The style overall is quite old-fashioned, I suppose this was written in 1927—but it seems to be of an older generation than Hemingway.
Good, strange story.
"The stream which fed the bathing-hole ran into it down a gully through the bush which offered an enticing vista for exploring: but somehow the children did not often go up it very far. Every stone had to be turned over in the hope of finding crayfish: or if not, John had to take a sporting gun, which he bulleted with spoonfuls of water to shoot humming-birds on the wing, too tiny frail quarry for any soldier projectile."
The style overall is quite old-fashioned, I suppose this was written in 1927—but it seems to be of an older generation than Hemingway.
Good, strange story.