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... called it to the Deadman's Pool , so designated from the fact of a poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone hard by . At this pool ...
... called it to the Deadman's Pool , so designated from the fact of a poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone hard by . At this pool ...
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... " I believe it is called , was gradually emptying itself , handed to me , with some expression in an un- known tongue , which I assumed to be a token of hospitality . Shutting my eyes , perforce , for the " THE SMALL STILL . " 23.
... " I believe it is called , was gradually emptying itself , handed to me , with some expression in an un- known tongue , which I assumed to be a token of hospitality . Shutting my eyes , perforce , for the " THE SMALL STILL . " 23.
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... called , that was in parts little else than the dry bed of the winter torrent , encumbered with stones , and now and then intersected by bogs of doubtful tenacity— lay for a considerable distance along the bank of the river . A wilder ...
... called , that was in parts little else than the dry bed of the winter torrent , encumbered with stones , and now and then intersected by bogs of doubtful tenacity— lay for a considerable distance along the bank of the river . A wilder ...
Page 52
... called rough - hounds , I think - are furnished with venomous spikes under the pectoral fin , which , if incautiously handled , make a bad wound and one difficult to cure . Two of us , however , had experience , and although often in ...
... called rough - hounds , I think - are furnished with venomous spikes under the pectoral fin , which , if incautiously handled , make a bad wound and one difficult to cure . Two of us , however , had experience , and although often in ...
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... called sport . Rising at 4 A.M. or earlier , stumbling along the banks of a river in the dim twilight , the cold dews striking chillingly upwards , the tedious drag , which , after half an hour or so , is generally found to be " heel ...
... called sport . Rising at 4 A.M. or earlier , stumbling along the banks of a river in the dim twilight , the cold dews striking chillingly upwards , the tedious drag , which , after half an hour or so , is generally found to be " heel ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!