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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 17, Feb. 24, 1880-Various · The Non-Stop Stowaway

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 1: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by Wayne Cook Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 1: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty Tracking a Buried River the
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  Speaker 1: adventure of two sailor Boys ZI. Sum of ZI hundred
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  Speaker 1: francs siro doolas will be paid by the Scientific Association
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  Speaker 1: MOLA to any one who shall succeed in tracing the
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  Speaker 1: course of the laure and ascultaining visiat has any underground
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  Speaker 1: communication visits se Felix de la Roche President. Such was
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  Speaker 1: the announcement, which posts sit in the quaint three cornered
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  Speaker 1: market place of the old French town of Lauchamp, attracted
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  Speaker 1: a good many readers, and among the rest two lads
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  Speaker 1: in sailor costume, one of whom remarked to the other, well,
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  Speaker 1: all a day we'd have a wakeed earn itt a Pierre,
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  Speaker 1: my boy, I said to think selvit this nobility was
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  Speaker 1: exactly O very soon. Don't you remember how a young ago, say,
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  Speaker 1: widens the cleft into which the stream falls, and let
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  Speaker 1: down a man vse a lantern, And how before he
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  Speaker 1: had gone thirty feet he got bumped against the rock
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  Speaker 1: and broke his lantern and hurt himself so badly that
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  Speaker 1: he had to be hauled up again. Deut's not a
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  Speaker 1: very likely job. Well, come along, let's get a boat out.
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  Speaker 1: Pierre Lebon, the younger of the trewe, was a lithe,
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  Speaker 1: olive cheeked, merry little fellow whose slim figure and jaunty
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  Speaker 1: black curls contrasted markedly with the burly frame and the
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  Speaker 1: thick sandy hair of his chum, Jacques Woudrie. The latter
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  Speaker 1: ought rightly to have been called Jack Fordrey, for he
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  Speaker 1: was an English boy born in Guernsey, but having been
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  Speaker 1: adopted by Brenton Fisherman after his father's death, both he
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  Speaker 1: and his name had got considerably frenchified. The two boys
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  Speaker 1: had to manage by themselves the boat of which they
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  Speaker 1: were joint owners, for old Sibon Lebon, Pierre's real and
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  Speaker 1: Jack's adopted father, was now too aged and rheumatic to
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  Speaker 1: help them in their work, except by advising them when
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  Speaker 1: to start and where to go. But his advice was
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  Speaker 1: always good, for in his time he had been one
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  Speaker 1: of the best fishermen on the coast, and the lads
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  Speaker 1: were usually very successful. On this particular day, however, their
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  Speaker 1: good luck seemed to have forsaken them, for try as
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  Speaker 1: they might, they could catch nothing worth mentioning. Possibly they
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  Speaker 1: were thinking too little of their work and too much
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  Speaker 1: of the reward offered by this scientific association, for three
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  Speaker 1: thousand francs would have been quite a fortune to them both. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: the idea of tracking an underground river had a spice
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  Speaker 1: of romance and adventure about it, which was the very
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  Speaker 1: thing to tempt them. The little stream of the Larov
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  Speaker 1: had long been the acknowledged puzzle of the whole neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: After skirting the town for some distance, it vanished into
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  Speaker 1: the earth through a narrow clift and was seen no more.
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  Speaker 1: Where it went after that, no one could tell, And
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  Speaker 1: as we have seen, the first attempt to find out
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  Speaker 1: had succeeded so badly that nobody felt much inclined for
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  Speaker 1: a second. Tired out at length, the unsuccessful fishers went home, inwardly,
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  Speaker 1: resolving to try whether they might not have better fortune
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  Speaker 1: by night than by day. Pierre, indeed, when the night came,
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  Speaker 1: began to have some doubts about the wisdom of the idea,
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  Speaker 1: having heard his father say once and again that it
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  Speaker 1: was a very dangerous thing to attempt in that season.
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  Speaker 1: But the hardest thing in the world for a boy
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  Speaker 1: to do is to draw back from anything simply because
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  Speaker 1: it is dangerous. Rather than let Jack think him afraid,
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  Speaker 1: Pierre would have gone to sea on a hen coop.
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  Speaker 1: So they stole out of the cottage as noiselessly as possible,
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  Speaker 1: and away they went, over the dim, gray waste of sea,
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  Speaker 1: half lighted by the rising moon. The take of fish
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  Speaker 1: was a very good one this time, and the boys
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  Speaker 1: began to think their night voyage a lucky idea. But
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  Speaker 1: they were rejoicing too soon. A little after midnight, the
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  Speaker 1: sky began to cloud over and the sea to rise
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  Speaker 1: and away, which showed that there was a storm brewing.
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  Speaker 1: They put about at once and made for the shore,
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  Speaker 1: But long before they reached it, the storm burst upon
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  Speaker 1: them in all its fury. In an instant. The boat
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  Speaker 1: was half full of water, and it was all they
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  Speaker 1: could do to keep her from foundering outright as they
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  Speaker 1: flew through the great white, roaring waves, thumped and banged
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  Speaker 1: about from side to side, and drenched to the skin
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  Speaker 1: at every plunge by the flying gusts of spray. Pierre
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  Speaker 1: grasped the tiller with his half numbed hands, while Jack
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  Speaker 1: held on with all his might to the sheet that
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  Speaker 1: steadied their little three cornered sail, at which the wind
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  Speaker 1: tugged as if meaning to tear it away. Altogether, the
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  Speaker 1: little craft held her own gallantly, and the young sailors
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  Speaker 1: began to hope that, after all they might make the
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  Speaker 1: entrance of the bay without accident. But just then an
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  Speaker 1: unlucky shift of the wind tore the sail clean away,
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  Speaker 1: and the boat, falling off at once, was swept helplessly
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  Speaker 1: toward the formidable cliffs beyond. Not much of a chant
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  Speaker 1: for us, now, said Jack, shaking his head. Bear me, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry I brought you out in this mess. It's
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  Speaker 1: all my fault, not a bit, old fellow. I ought
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  Speaker 1: to have wanted you, of what i'd heard my fosther say. However,
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  Speaker 1: if of us comes to us, we can swim for it. However,
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  Speaker 1: there seemed to be little hope, for not a foot
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  Speaker 1: of standing room was to be seen in the rocky
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  Speaker 1: sides of the vast black precipice upon which they were
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  Speaker 1: driving headlong. All at once, Jack shouted, Borion, Pierre Port,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do it. Yet his keen eye had detected a
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  Speaker 1: cliff in the rock, just white enough for the boat
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  Speaker 1: to enter. Pierre had barely time to obey when there
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  Speaker 1: came a tremendous crash, and the boys found themselves floundering
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  Speaker 1: amid a welter of foam nets, sand, dead fish, and
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  Speaker 1: broken timbers, and a deep, dark hollow that looked like
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of a cave. Those my fuzzer's boat sputtered
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  Speaker 1: Pierre as soon as he could clear his mouth of
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  Speaker 1: the salt water. And there goes our fish. Added Jack,
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  Speaker 1: is that loafi were put in the lock of thell,
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  Speaker 1: and even wetbreads better none in a place lock this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then let's be get now higher up, for the title
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  Speaker 1: be upon us here in no time. But to get
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  Speaker 1: higher up was no easy matter. They were an utter darkness, and,
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  Speaker 1: as it had already found by groping about on the
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  Speaker 1: brink of a chasm of unknown depth, the ledge upon
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  Speaker 1: which they had been cast was evidently very narrow and
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  Speaker 1: almost as slippery as eyes, and Jack, being encumbered with
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  Speaker 1: a loaf and Pierre badly bruised against the rocks, they
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  Speaker 1: were not in the best condition for climbing, But the
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  Speaker 1: roar of the next wave as it came bursting in,
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  Speaker 1: splashing them from head to foot where they sat, was
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful quickener to their movements, and away they scrambedumbled
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  Speaker 1: through the pitchy blackness, clinging like limpets to the rough
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  Speaker 1: side of the cavern. As they felt their feet slide
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  Speaker 1: upon the treacherous rocks, and thought of the unseen gulf below. Onward, onward,
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  Speaker 1: still deeper and deeper into the heart of the cold,
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  Speaker 1: silent rock, fearing at every moment to feel their way
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  Speaker 1: barred by solid wall and find themselves cut off from
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  Speaker 1: escape and doomed to be drowned by inches. But no,
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  Speaker 1: the strange tunnel went on and on as if it
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  Speaker 1: would never end, their only consolation being that they were
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  Speaker 1: unmistakably tending upward, and already as they calculated beyond the
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  Speaker 1: reach of the flood tide, suddenly Jack uttered a shout
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  Speaker 1: of joy. A rapier is water. The landing candles in
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  Speaker 1: my inner pocket, and I now I've got my matches somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be able to see what we are at last,
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  Speaker 1: my boy, the matches, luckily still dry, were produced, the
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  Speaker 1: candle was lighted, and our heroes took a survey of
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  Speaker 1: their surroundings. They were in a long, narrow passage, rising
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  Speaker 1: to a considerable height overhead, and with another ledge on
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  Speaker 1: its opposite side, steeper and more broken than the one
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  Speaker 1: on which they were. In The center lay the chasm
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  Speaker 1: already mentioned, but instead of the frightful depth of which
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  Speaker 1: they had imagined, it was only six or seven feet
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  Speaker 1: deep at the most, and more than half full of water.
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  Speaker 1: There's our terrible precipice, laughed Jack, stooping over it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that would hurt us much. But hello, oh Sabia,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't sea brawn. It's fresh wah, running wah. It's
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  Speaker 1: a streamless tuttle's white through the rock, and if we
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  Speaker 1: follow it far enough we'll get out. Hurrah, hurrah, echoed Pierre.
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  Speaker 1: Right now we sha'n't also the water an the hill,
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  Speaker 1: and as ful food, we may as well have a
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  Speaker 1: bite of zat loaf before stunting out again. The underground
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  Speaker 1: breakfast was soon finished, and the adventurous lads started once more.
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  Speaker 1: But the pain of Pierre's bruises, which he had manfully
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  Speaker 1: concealed hitherto, began to master him. At last. His tired
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  Speaker 1: limbs began to drag more and more heavily. His feet
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  Speaker 1: slipped again and again, and only the strong hand of
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  Speaker 1: his comrade saved him from more than one serious fall. Barely,
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  Speaker 1: sit down and rest, old fellow, said Jack. Conny, there's
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  Speaker 1: no hurry. Why scandal burn a long while yet? I
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  Speaker 1: now you won't own it. But you did get a
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  Speaker 1: nasty bump against that rock. Yonder hey, Isaiah, answered Pierre,
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  Speaker 1: sinking wearily upon the ledge. But ly, as still needs
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  Speaker 1: the candle while it was sitting still, you know, blow
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  Speaker 1: it out and as lighted again. Then we started. Jack
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  Speaker 1: did so, and they sat silent in the darkness. All
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  Speaker 1: at once Pierre heard his comrade call out, I say,
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  Speaker 1: doubt you falling somewhere? To be sure, I do, replied Pierre,
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  Speaker 1: after listening a moment. We must be close to the
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  Speaker 1: zablaz was a stream files down into the tunnel, and
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  Speaker 1: now we have a chance of getting out. At last, whahvah,
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  Speaker 1: Jack slapped his hands together with a shout that made
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  Speaker 1: the cavern echo. I've got an idea, Pierre, my boy,
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  Speaker 1: what a fool. I was not think of this before.
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  Speaker 1: This stream that we've been following is at all. And
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  Speaker 1: we got to the very place where falls through the cleft. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if only we can get out with held bones, it's
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  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred five, it's a piece for us. Come along quick.
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  Speaker 1: All Pierre's wariness was gone in a minute. Already in
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  Speaker 1: his mind's eye he saw his ailing father comfortably provided for,
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  Speaker 1: and Jack and himself standing out to see in a
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  Speaker 1: brand new boat. The instant the candle was lighted, they
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  Speaker 1: were off again, at a pace which would have seemed
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  Speaker 1: impossible a few minutes before. Guided by the increasing dim
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  Speaker 1: of the waterfall, they were not long and reaching a
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  Speaker 1: huge perpendicular funnel or chimney in the rock, down one
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  Speaker 1: side of which poured a stream of water, while through
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  Speaker 1: a cleft above, dazzlingly radiant after the darkness of the
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  Speaker 1: buried passage came a bright gleam of sunshine. Just then
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  Speaker 1: a big stone flung from above came thundering down into
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  Speaker 1: the chasm. Falling close to the feet of the two explorers.
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  Speaker 1: That's the boys that they're funds, said Jack's laughing, I've
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  Speaker 1: done it many times myself. Above there Oi. The only
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  Speaker 1: answer was a howl of terror and the sound of
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  Speaker 1: flying feet. Pierre, alarmed at the thought of being deserted,
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  Speaker 1: shouted at his tone. Help come, an's help, who is
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  Speaker 1: aunt to carling, asked a gruff voice from above, while
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  Speaker 1: the light was obscured by a broad visage peering down
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  Speaker 1: into the hole. Well, I guess spot is that you
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  Speaker 1: cried here, recognizing the voice of one of his father's
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  Speaker 1: fishing cronies, water Pierre Lebon, you do'n de'el well, whoever,
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  Speaker 1: sazalik with a minute while a grenfalope. But before he
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  Speaker 1: could return, there were already more than a hundred people
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  Speaker 1: gathered round the hole, for the news of a human
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  Speaker 1: voice having been heard out of the lav chimney, as
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  Speaker 1: the chasm was called, had spread far and wide. The
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  Speaker 1: waterfall on one side and the sharp rocks on the
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  Speaker 1: other made it no easy matter to dry the boys
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  Speaker 1: up safely. But at length they were dragged forth into
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  Speaker 1: the daylight to be embraced and shouted over by the
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  Speaker 1: whole town, and to receive a few days later the
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  Speaker 1: praises of the entire Scientific Association, together with the three
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  Speaker 1: thousand Francs which they had so bravely earned. End of
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  Speaker 1: Section one.
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  Speaker 2: Section two of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 2: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 2: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 2: by Lindame Nielsen, Vancouver, b C. Harper's Young People, Volume one,
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  Speaker 2: issue seventeen February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. Biddy O'dolean Chapter
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  Speaker 2: one by missus Zadale B. Gustafson. Do you remember Biddy o'dolan,
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  Speaker 2: the little rag picker and ash girl who found Lily D.
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  Speaker 2: Coven's broken doll in the ash can that cold winter's morning.
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  Speaker 2: I have not forgotten my promised to tell you the
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  Speaker 2: rest about her. Biddy had a boyfriend, a little Irish
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  Speaker 2: boy who called himself Charlier Showsie. I suspect his name
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  Speaker 2: was Charlie O'Shaughnessy. He was just as poor and alone
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  Speaker 2: in the world as Biddy and almost always stayed in
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  Speaker 2: the same cellar at night. When Biddy ran off with
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  Speaker 2: her doll that cold morning, she not only thought of
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  Speaker 2: the hospital and the little girl who had there brought
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  Speaker 2: her the flowers, but she thought how she would tell
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  Speaker 2: Charlie that night about her doll. The first thing to
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  Speaker 2: be done was to get Dolly a dress, and this
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  Speaker 2: was the way Biddy managed it. She took an old
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  Speaker 2: knife and hacked out a piece of her skirt. Then
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  Speaker 2: she pulled out of her dingy pocket a little wad,
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  Speaker 2: a wad of what pins, pins that she had picked
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  Speaker 2: up on the street in the summer when she swept
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  Speaker 2: the street crossings, and had stuck thick and crisscross in
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  Speaker 2: a bit of woolen rag. With some of these pins,
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  Speaker 2: Biddy fastened together the two sides of the cut in
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  Speaker 2: her skirt neck. She took the piece of cloth she
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  Speaker 2: had cut out and punched her tough little forefinger, threw
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  Speaker 2: it into places, and through one of these holes pushed
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  Speaker 2: the whole arm, and through the other the broken arm
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  Speaker 2: of her doll, and pinned the cloth together in the back.
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  Speaker 2: Thus Dolly was dressed, and nearly as well as Biddy too.
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  Speaker 2: Biddy had been very quick about this, and had often
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  Speaker 2: looked over her shoulders to see who came in and
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  Speaker 2: out of the cellar. You who do not live in
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  Speaker 2: a cellar and do not get shoved about and slapped
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  Speaker 2: as Biddy did, can hardly imagine how glad she was
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  Speaker 2: that no one happened to take notice of her. She
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  Speaker 2: hid Dolly under the straw where she was to sleep
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  Speaker 2: at night, and then hurried out to pick over as
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  Speaker 2: many more ash cans and barrels as she could, in
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  Speaker 2: hopes of finding something this time which would please Missus Brown,
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  Speaker 2: so that she could dare to show her doll and
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  Speaker 2: perhaps be allowed to sit up and play with it.
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  Speaker 2: A little. Missus Brown was the cross old woman who
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  Speaker 2: kept the cellar, and the children on the street called
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  Speaker 2: her grumpy. Biddy did not find anything in particular, and
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  Speaker 2: got fewer pennies than usual for errands and for showing
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  Speaker 2: people the way to places, so that old Missus Brown
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  Speaker 2: was very cross indeed, and Biddy went to bed without
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  Speaker 2: daring to pull Dolly out where she could see her.
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  Speaker 2: She lay awake with her hand on it, waiting for Charlie.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie was a newsboy, but he was not a lucky
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  Speaker 2: little boy. He had the large and beautiful, deep blue
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  Speaker 2: eyes you may often see in the children of Irish immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: But he was weak in body and very shy. He lived,
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  Speaker 2: as Biddy did, among rough people who were all the
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  Speaker 2: more rough because they were so poor and miserable. So
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  Speaker 2: he got knocked about a great deal and stood no
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  Speaker 2: chance at all among other newsboys who shoved him aside
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  Speaker 2: and called their papers so loud that Charlie's thin voice
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  Speaker 2: could not be heard. Some newsboys made money selling papers,
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  Speaker 2: make so much that they can start in other kinds
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  Speaker 2: of business for themselves and get on very well in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Among other successful men, I have seen this
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  Speaker 2: kind of newsboy. They have bright, sharp, old looking faces.
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  Speaker 2: They have wiry, strong bodies, good health, and seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be afraid of nothing. Charlie wasn't this sort of boy
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  Speaker 2: at all. He got poked and pushed and cuffed and
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  Speaker 2: tripped up and laughed at. The girls called him freedcat
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  Speaker 2: because they thought he was a coward. The boys said
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  Speaker 2: he was just like a girl and showed it Hallo
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  Speaker 2: Polly when they saw him. Charlie did not say much
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  Speaker 2: to all this. He went with his papers every day
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  Speaker 2: and managed to sell a few. And besides he did
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  Speaker 2: errands quickly and well. In these ways he earned enough
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  Speaker 2: to pay for his straw in Missus Brown's cellar, and
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  Speaker 2: to buy enough to eat to keep life in him.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie's straw was next to Biddy's straw, and when he
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  Speaker 2: came in that night, Biddy whispered to him all about
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  Speaker 2: her doll, telling him especially how one of its arms
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  Speaker 2: was broken off at the elbow. Charlie put out his
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  Speaker 2: hand in the dark and asked her to let him
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  Speaker 2: take the doll. A moment, he felt it over carefully
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  Speaker 2: and gave it back without saying anything. Biddy whispered a
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  Speaker 2: little more, and then they went to sleep. One day,
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  Speaker 2: Biddy happened to come in a little after noon. She
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  Speaker 2: was going right out again, but first she stopped and
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  Speaker 2: felt under her straw. The doll was gone. Biddy sat down,
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  Speaker 2: quite faint for a moment. Then she sprang to her feet,
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  Speaker 2: darted up the cellar steps and around the corner where
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  Speaker 2: old Missus Brown sat behind her apple and candy stand.
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  Speaker 2: Biddy reached over and put both hands in the knot
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  Speaker 2: of gray hair in the old woman's neck, pulling as
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  Speaker 2: if she would carry her off stand in all. Biddy's
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  Speaker 2: face was pale and her eyes were like white hot
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  Speaker 2: coals as she gasped out, give it me, give it me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never leave go till ye give it me. Hold
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  Speaker 2: on an leave go of me, cried the old woman.
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  Speaker 2: She grasped Biddy's wists and drew them toward her to
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  Speaker 2: ease the strain on her hair. But Biddy's little fingers
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  Speaker 2: were strong. She tugged hard and kept on gasping, I'll
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  Speaker 2: never never leave, go till ye give it me. Oh.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Never had such an oh come from Biddy's lips before,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: And with the very sound of it, she had torn
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: herself away from Missus Brown and had seized and almost
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: knocked over little Charlie, who had vainly been making signs
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: at her as he came up behind Missus browne Missus
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Brown rubbed her neck, smoothed down her apron, and jabbering fiercely,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: came panting up to the children. Biddy had let go
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: of Charlie and was sitting right down on the cold pavement,
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  Speaker 2: holding her doll and looking with wild delight and wonder
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  Speaker 2: at its wooden arm. Knew from the elbow Charlie knew
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: an old man who used to whittle out all sorts
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: of things with his jack knife, and who seemed as
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: ready to give away as to sell his work. Charlie
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: had taken Biddy's doll to this man, who had willingly
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: and quite skillfully mended it. He was on his way
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: back to get it hid under Biddy's straw for a
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: surprise for her when he found Biddy struggling with Missus Brown.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Charlie's plan was perfect. The trouple was that he couldn't
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: plan for Biddy too, and she had spoiled everything without
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  Speaker 2: knowing it. However, could ye get a new arm? Said Biddy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a miracle be wished with your merry culls, exclaimed
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: old Missus Brown, snatching the doll, holding it high out
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  Speaker 2: of reach, and spreading out her other hand to keep
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Biddy off. But Biddy did not spring at her this time.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: She stood up and put her hands together and twisted
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: them till the knuckles were white, and she spoke as
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: if there were cotton in her throat. When she begged
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: the old woman to give her the doll, she promised
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: never to be a bad girl any more, to give
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: every cent she could get to Missus bro every one
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: to do everything Missus Brown asked her to do, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: she called her over and over again, good lady and
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: dear lady. Missus Brown kept on talking too fast to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: be understood. She was very angry and slapped Biddy's cheeks
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and pushed her toward the cellar. Biddy stumbled along as
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: she was pushed, and kept on praying for her doll
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and making every promise she could think of to the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: old woman. When they reached the cellar steps, Charlie pulled
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Missus Browne's dress, showed her a bright new quarter dollar,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: and said she might have it if she would give
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: up the doll to Biddy. Missus Brown took the quarter,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: looked at it, rang it on the step, and then
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: handed the doll to Biddy, telling her that she might
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: have it that night, but that she must pay extra
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: every day for what she called the Crather's board and lodging.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: This idea seemed to please Missus Brown very much, for
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: she called it a great joke and put her hands
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: on her hips and laughed. Then she looked savage again
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: and said she would keep the doll herself on nights
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: when Biddy could not pay extra. She went off to
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: her fruit stand with her hands on her hips, laughing
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and muttering. By turns. Biddy sat down with her doll now,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: and then she looked at Charlie and smiled and seemed
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: to be thinking very hard about something to be continued.
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  Speaker 2: End of section two. Recording by Lyndaree Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
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  Speaker 3: Section three of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 3: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 3: by Larry Wilson, Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 3: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. New York Prisons in seventeen
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  Speaker 3: seventy six seventy seven. Those who tread the floor of
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  Speaker 3: what was recently the post office, once the great Middle
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Dutch Church, and now a brokers exchange at the corner
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: of Nassau Street and Cedar can scarcely believe that it
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: was once a military prison, that its walls re echoed
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: the groans and cries of sick and dying patriots, that
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: a large part of Washington's army was once confined on
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: the very spot where now the broker is calling his
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: stocks and the photographer fitting his lenses. The fine Church
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: in seventeen seventy six was converted at once into a
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: royal prison. Its pews were torn out, its interior defaced,
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  Speaker 3: and the walls are the same that shut in the
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate Americans, and their only shelter was the lofty roof
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: that still rises among the haunts of trade. The ancient
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: building is one of the most touching of the historical
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: remains of the early city. The number of persons shut
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: up at once within its precincts is variously estimated. One
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: account gives eight hundred, another three thousand as the probable limit.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: It is certain that they were crowded in with no
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: care for comfort, no regard for health or ease, that
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: one aim of the royal captain was to break their
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: spirit by ill usage and win them back to their
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: loyalty by no gentle means. As the Motley trained prisoners
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: came down to the city after the capture of Fort Washington,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: they were met by the royal officers with every mark
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of contempt and hate. They were stripped of their arms
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: and uniforms, robbed of their money, insulted with rude taunts
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: and even blows. War had not yet been robbed as
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: some of its brutality by the slow rise of knowledge,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: and the British officers had not yet learned the politeness
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: of free men. A savage Hessian made his way up
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: to Graydon, the young American officer, and threatened to kill him.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Young man said to him, a Scotch officer of more humanity,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: you should never rebel against your king. The prisoners were
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: taken before the British Provost Marshal to be examined. What
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: is your rank? Said the officer to a sturdy little
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: fellow from Connecticut, ragged and dirty, who seemed scarcely twenty.
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  Speaker 3: I am keppin, said he in a resolute tone. The
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: British officers, clad in scarlet and gold, broke into shouts
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: of laughter. It was not long before they were flying
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: before the capons of New Jersey and New York, glad
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: to escape from the rabble they despised. When they had
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: been examined, plundered, ridiculed, The unlucky prisoners were divided into
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  Speaker 3: companies and marched away to the different prisons of New
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: York that were, for so many weary months to be
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: their homes or their graves. Those who were confined in
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: the Middle Dutch Church were probably the most fortunate of all.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: They had air and light. But two of the prisons
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: are covered with some of the saddest memories of the
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  Speaker 3: War for freedom. One of them was a common jail
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: in the Park now the Hall of Records, and the
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: other was the old sugar House in Liberty Street, next
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: to the Middle Dutch Church. The jail was so crowded
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: with the captured Americans that they had scarcely room to
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: lie on the bare floor. The air was stifling, the
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  Speaker 3: rooms pestilential, full of filth and fever. But the most
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  Speaker 3: painful circumstance of their lot was the character of the keeper.
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  Speaker 3: His name was Cunningham. He seems to have been a monster.
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  Speaker 3: Many years afterward he was executed in England for some
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  Speaker 3: hideous crime, and boasted that he had put arsenic in
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: the flower he served to the prisoners. It was under
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: this man one of those horrible Nature's war often brings
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  Speaker 3: into use that the young men of New York Connecticut
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and New Jersey were to pass their miserable captivity. Soon
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: even the English officials were forced to take notice of
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: the horrors of the jail in the park. The neighbors
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: complained that they could not go to sleep for the
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: outcries and groans of the prisoners. Cunningham ruled over them
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: with lash and sword. They were starved, reviled, beaten to
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: win them, he said to their duty. The chill winter
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: in the hot summer found them crowded in their pestilential prisons.
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  Speaker 3: The Old sugar House in Liberty Street was also under
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  Speaker 3: Cunningham's care. It was a tall building several stories high,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: with small windows, low ceilings, and bare walls. Every story
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  Speaker 3: was filled thickly with the captured Americans. They starved, pined away,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: dyed by hundreds. Cunningham withheld their food and cheated even
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  Speaker 3: the miserable, sick and dying. They froze to death in
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: the chill winter of seventeen seventy six seventy seven. Sometimes
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: the famished prisoners would come to the narrow window of
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  Speaker 3: the Old sugar House, crying for charity to those who passed,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: but the sentries drove them back. They pined away in
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: the dark corners of the crowded rooms, dreaming of the
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: old homestead and Connecticut thanksgiving cheer, and smiling friends. When
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  Speaker 3: they were brought out for exchange, Washington wrote indignantly to
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  Speaker 3: Sir Henry Clinton, you give us only the sick and
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: dying for our healthy, well fed prisoners. Such were the
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: sorrows our ancestors bore for us. Us They were the
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  Speaker 3: authors of our freedom. And he who treads the floors
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: of the old Dutch church, or seeks out the spot
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: where stood the sugar house in Liberty Street, they well
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  Speaker 3: pause to think how much we owe to those who
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: once pined within their walls. Such two is war. Modern
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  Speaker 3: intelligence has shorn it of some of its horrors. It
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  Speaker 3: may be hoped that education will at last banish it altogether.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: And the people of Europe and America joined to force
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  Speaker 3: upon their governments a policy of peace into Section three,
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  Speaker 3: Section four of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 3: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty.
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  Speaker 4: This is a LibriVox recording. While LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 4: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 4: visit LibriVox dot org. Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue
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  Speaker 4: seventeen February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty Zakor with the sack.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: The stately looking man, wearing suspended on his left side
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: by a strong strap, a simple gray sack, while a
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: well filled leather purse hung on his right, was one
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: day slowly wandering through the crowded bazaar of Baghdad. He
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: remained standing before one of the stalls, and then, after
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: a little reflection, proceeded to purchase the largest and softest
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: carpet there, one of those in which the foot seems
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: gently to sink down and the sound of each step
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: is completely hushed. The merchant was greatly surprised to see
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: the richly dressed stranger without reting you, and said politely, Sir,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: as your slaves are not at hand, I will send
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: one of my young men with you to carry the carpet.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: It is not necessary, said the purchaser, as he paid
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: the price in shining gold pieces. I can manage it myself.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: He quickly took up the immense roll of carpet and
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: pushed it slowly but surely into his sack. Then, without
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: heeding the amazement and shaking of the head of the
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: dealer he passed on his desire of purchasing seemed now
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: to be thoroughly roused. Twelve flashs of otto of roses
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: from Shiraz found their way into his sack. Ten pounds
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: of the finest Turkish tobacco followed them. Then came quite
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: appropriately a magnificent naudilie with a long tube and a
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: yellow amber mouthpiece, on the top of which he carelessly
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: threw a heavy ebony box and laid with copper. Notwithstanding
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: the crowd, he attracted continual notice, and a dignified looking
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: man had long been following him attentively, without however addressing him.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: But when he had reached the middle of the bazaar,
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: where the best and most costly wares are exposed for sale,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: and when as though intoxicated by the sight, he sees
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: the most incongruous things and entirely pushed them into his sack.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Pearls from Ormus and blades from Damascus, tons of mocha,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: coffee and vales of silk, fishes and rings, bracelets and dates, watches,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: saddles and diamonds. Then the caliph, for it was no
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: less a personage who was following him could contain himself
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: no longer, and said, I have seen many wonders, o stranger,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: and by the beard of the prophet, thou art not
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: the least. Have then thy purse and thy sack no end?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Why dost thy sack not burst? How canst thou carry it?
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: How canst thou find but one of the thousand things
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: which thou art unceasingly cramming into it? And tell me
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: how will those poor tender pearls which were too dear
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: for me to buy for Zulaika fair among tons and
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: crates zachor such was the name of the stranger, crossed
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: his arms on his breast and bowed low. Ruler of
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: the faithful, he said, for it is in vain that
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: thou hidest thy noble figure under a homely dress. Thy
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: portrait painted by a geowar An offered to me in Frankistan,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: is also in my sack. And I recognize thee at once.
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  Speaker 4: Allah is great, and his gifts so wonderful. Thou carest
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: for the lovely daughters of the shell. Look here. He
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: quickly put his right hand into the sack and brought forth,
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: unhurt from the very mist of sabers and boxes. The
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: double row of large milk white pearls, which he respectfully
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: presented to the Caliph. The Caliph was astonished at Zakhor's
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: richest and dexterity, rejoiced at his present, and was curious
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: to learn more concerning him. Then we will sit down
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: there on the broadstone steps at the foot of the
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: murmuring fountain, said Zakor, And in a minute he had
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: spread out his soft carpet and light it to Najiles.
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: Filled with the costly aromatic herb. They sat down, with
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: their legs crossed under them peacefully sent little blue clouds
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: into the air, and the stranger began his tail. I'm
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: the son of a poor man, o sire, and seemed
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: doomed to poverty. But there stood a good fairy by
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: my cradle, and laid on it this bag, in this purse, saying,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: grow up, Zakor, and look around thee in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Buy what pleases thee. Pay for it out of this purse,
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: which will not become empty, and preserve it in this sack,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: which will not become full, But especially pack in all
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: that is valuable. The weight of it will not weary thee.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: It is held more than she promised all that I
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: have never possessed or loved, discontained, imperishable, save forever, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: always at hand in this sack. Wonderful, highly singular and wonderful,
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: said the caliph. But tell me more, friend, Details would
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: take too long to relate. But the hole is soon,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: said answered Zakor. Thou wast surprised to day at my
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: rapidity and purchasing. Thou shouldst have seen me in my
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: young days, when the world still looked sunny and bright.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: To my childish days, when thousands of objects attracted me.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: My hand was rarely out of my purse and my sack.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I took long journeys over sea and desert, through lonely
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: villages and large cities, and whatever pleased me I bought
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: and joyfully put into my capacious sack. Indeed, it filled
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: itself without aid from me. Shining green birds in brilliant
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: snow white blossoms flew into it. The first impetuous joy was, however,
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: soon stilled. Sometimes I feel only of indifference came over me,
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: and I passed unmoved by the most beautiful things, because
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: I already possessed so much that was lovely. Another opportunity
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: will occur I thought if I should ever wish for it,
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: but it never came, just as no moment of time
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: ever returns. And now I mourn over many a neglected chance.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Then again I comfort myself with the thought of how
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: many things I possess, and take old a new out
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: of my sack, according to my inclination, a quilted silk
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: counterpane from Japan and which to envelop myself, or the
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Egyptian phoenix to lull me to sleep. Besides, the world
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: is still large, and Zakor is not old. Yet I
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: have still time to buy. And sometimes the old long
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: is very strong in me. Thus, today, Osar, when I
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: entered thy city, I gave praise to Allah that he
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: had enabled man to form out of the dirty world
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: of the sheep, the brilliant carpet on which we are sitting,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: and caused the fragile amber now between our lips to
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: rise up from the sand to the sea. That he
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: brought the gold from the bowels of the earth and
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: the pearls from the depths of the sea. And eagerly
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: I seize the things, O Sire, until the eye of
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Thy favor rested on me, and the blessed breath of
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: thy mouth reached me and gave me what cannot be
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: purchased with gold and silver. The honor and delight of
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: thy presence well spoken, said the Caliph, delighted as he
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: blew a thick cloud before him. It is easy to
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: see that thou hast traveled and been in courts to
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: friend Zakor. But one thing before I again forget it
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: in my amazement, the prophet praised be his name, has
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: forbidden to make a likeness or picture of man the
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: image of Allah. But as thou possessest mine, done by
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: some unbelieving dog, I cannot conceive how he found time
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: and opportunity to do it. They paint rapidly, interrupted Zakor,
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: and are quick in all evil arts. True, very true.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I should like to look at the thing. The people
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: need know nothing about it. Couldst thou not take it
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: out for me to have just one glimpse of it?
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Thy wishes a command to me, answered Zakor, who is
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: already fumbling in the sack, but for some time in
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: vain well ko the Khaliph, getting angry, art thou sorry
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: that thou hast promised? Or here it is, Osar, said Zakor,
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: breathing freely, and the anger of the ruler disappeared as
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: he gazed with curiosity on a small silver metal. It
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: is I, and yet it is not, he said, shaking
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: his head. It is my fez with a ruby clasp
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: in the embroidery on my state dress. But I do
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: not really look so stiff, wear, the brown cheeks, the
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: brightness of the eyes, the coloring. Friend, And what do
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: I see? The thing is broken. Look here there is
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: a crack across it that separates the feet of my
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: horse from his body. Therefore, thou canst not keep all
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: thy things unhurt in that sack. Thou canst not find
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: them all in a minute. Confess thou hast also lost
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: some entirely. I am the son of a poor man,
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: answered Zarkor, blushing. But I learned two things when only
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: a boy, to use a sword and to speak the truth. Yes,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: I have lost many a thing. And when I was
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: boasting just now that I had everything in my sack,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I was guilty of exaggeration, as men of limited capacity
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: are in the use of the two words everything and nothing.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: I should have said most things. At this moment appeared
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: two outriders on swift Arab steeds, and behind them came
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: a gilt carriage drawn by four Barbary horses. At sight
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: of them, Zakhor sprang to his feet without for a moment,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: losing sight of the approaching procession. Seeing the calif rise too,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: he quickly pushed his carpet and argela into the sack
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: and exclaimed, with sparkling eyes, to whom does this magnificence belong? Though?
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: How can I ask for who but thou sire could
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: call such blender his own? How beautifully the Nubian in
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: his purple contrast with a gray horse, and the pale
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  Speaker 4: Christian slave, and the blue silk with a shining black steed.
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  Speaker 4: If only thou wert a merchant with this equipage for sale,
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  Speaker 4: Princes do not barter, said the caliph, as he put
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  Speaker 4: a little silver whistle to his mouth and blew a
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: shrill blast, when horses and carriage suddenly stood still by
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: the side of the fountain. But thou hast made me
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  Speaker 4: a handsome present, friend, Zakor, And what is more, given
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: me a pleasant hour. Take what thou praisest so enthusiastically
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: be my guest to day and tomorrow, or when it
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: pleases thee drive away into the wild world in this carriage.
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  Speaker 4: It must be weary work dragging such a sack. Zachor
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  Speaker 4: crossed his arms on his breast, bowed low, and answered,
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  Speaker 4: thy favor is like dew on a barren land, even
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  Speaker 4: for the richest. And if I had not promised a
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: sick friend to be with him this evening, I would
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  Speaker 4: willingly enter within the shadow of thy halls. Therefore, let
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  Speaker 4: me go in peace. But these beautifully kept horses and
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: carrots shall not go through the dust of the suburbs.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: Saying this, he quietly pushed the Nubian with his gray steed,
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: the black horse and his rider, the carriage and horses
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: into the sack, bowed down to the ground again, and
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: then stepped lightly in erect toward the city gate. The
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: Kaliph shook his head as he looked after him, went
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: home full of thought, and hung the double row of
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: pearls around Zulaika's neck. Then he sent for his private
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: secretary and said, take a swan quill in a sheep
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  Speaker 4: of the finest parchment, and write down carefully what I
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: shall dictate the story of Zakor with the sack. Many
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: of our young readers have doubtless long since seen the
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: meaning of this tale shine forth through its thin veil.
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  Speaker 4: We should all be surprised at a Zachor. And yet
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  Speaker 4: like him, we have each a faithful, capacious sack memory
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  Speaker 4: into which, from our youth upward we have crammed what
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: is noble and common, pearls and pebbles. And yet it
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: does not become full, nor our purse, our power of
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: comprehension empty. End of za Kor with the sack, end
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  Speaker 4: of Section.
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  Speaker 1: Four, Section five of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue
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  Speaker 1: seventeen February twenty four, eighteen eighty. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by Wayne Cook, Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 1: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. The Difference, who warms his
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: slippers for Papa when he comes home totnight, who meets
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: him with a joyous laugh and blue eyes beaming bright,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: who climbs upon his ready knee with kisses sweet as
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: kiss can be. Our kitty who teases poor old Grandmamma,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: and pulls her work away, and with her gold rimmed
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: spectacles too often tries to play Who's full of mischief,
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  Speaker 1: sport and fun from early morn till day is done.
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  Speaker 1: Our kitty, whose little arms hug Mamma, tite, whose lips
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: give kisses sweet, who follows a nurse about the house
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  Speaker 1: with little restless feet, who sings to Dolly, scolds her too,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: and tries to act as big folks do. Our kitty,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: who bent on mischief, true to say, like any little
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: elf within the pantry, hides to taste the goodies on
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the shelf, who bothers cook where'er she goes, and makes
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: her scold. You may suppose our kitty, But lest our
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: kitty chance to get more than her shame of blame
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: for mischief, I'll explain there is some difference in the name.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: One kitty is our child. You see the other kitties
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: see ay t a peep into royal treasures. The Hazane
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  Speaker 1: or Imperial treasury of Constantinople contains a costly collection of
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  Speaker 1: ancient armor and coats of mail worn by the sultans.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: The most remarkable is that of Sultan Merad the second,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the conqueror of Baghdad. The head piece of this suit
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: is of gold and silver, almost covered with precious stones.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: The diadem surrounding the turbine is composed of three emeralds
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: of the purest water and large size, while the collar
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: is formed of twenty two large and magnificent diamonds. In
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the same collection is a curious ornament in the shape
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: of an elephant of massive gold, standing on a pedestal
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: formed of enormous pearls. Placed side by side. There is
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: also a table thickly inlaid with oriental topazes, presented by
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: the Empress Catherine of Russia to the Vizir Maltegi Mustafa,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: together with a very remarkable collection of ancient costs umes
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  Speaker 1: trimmed with rare furs and literally covered with precious stones.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: The divans and cushions formerly in the throne room of
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: the Sultans are gorgeous. The stuff of which the cushions
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  Speaker 1: are made is pure tissue of gold, without any mixture
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  Speaker 1: of silk whatever, and is embroidered with pearls weighing about
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  Speaker 1: thirty six hundred drachmas. Children's cradles of solid gold inlaid
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: with precious stones, vases of immense value in rock, crystal,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: gold and silver, encrusted with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, daggers,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: swords and shields, beautifully wrought and richly jeweled. All tell
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: a story of ancient grandeur and wealth, when the Ottoman
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: power was reality and Western Europe trembled before the descent
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of the Sun of Amrath. Notwithstanding these jeweled riches of Turkeya, however,
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  Speaker 1: they are surpassed by the splendor of the Shah of
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  Speaker 1: Persia's treasury, the contents of which have accumulated in successive periods. Nadir,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Shah of Persia, in the first half of the eighteenth century,
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: amassed enormous riches by the spoils of war, is said
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  Speaker 1: to have had a tent made so magnificent and costly
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  Speaker 1: as to appear almost fabulous. The outside was covered with
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  Speaker 1: fine scarlet broadcloth. The lining was of violet colored satin,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: on which were the representations of all the birds and
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: beasts in creation, with trees and flowers. The whole made
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: of pearls, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, amethysts and other precious stones,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and the ten poles were decorated in like manner. On
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: both sides of the peacock throne was a screen on
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: which were the figures of two angels in precious stones.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: This splendid tent was displayed on all festivals in the
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: public hall of Herat during the remainder of Nadir Shah's reign.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: It would be impossible to describe in a short article
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  Speaker 1: the splendor of the Persian treasury. One extraordinary object may
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: be mentioned, a two foot globe covered with jewels from
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  Speaker 1: the north pole to the extremities of the tripod, on
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  Speaker 1: which the gemmed spheres placed. His majesty had coats embroidered
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  Speaker 1: with diamonds and emeralds, rubies, pearls, and garnets. He had
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: jeweled swords and daggers without number. So, because he did
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: not know what else to do with the rest of
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: his jewels, he ordered the globe to be constructed and
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: covered with gems, the overspreading sea to be of emeralds,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: and the kingdoms of the world to be distinguished by
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: jewels of different color. Winged freebooters the great goshawk, a
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: bird in a coat of blackish brown covered with blotches
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  Speaker 1: of black and reddish white, is a terrible enemy to
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: wild rapids, hairs, and squirrels, and to all the small
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: feathered inhabitants of field and forest. It is about two
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: feet long, and although it is not a bird of
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: very rapid flight, its cunning and strength are such that
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: its prey rarely escapes. Should the terrified hare hid itself
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: in some thicket, the gosawk patiently perches on an elevated
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: branch near at hand, where it will wait hours, motionless,
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  Speaker 1: until the poor hair thaking its enemy departed, ventures from
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: its retreat, when in an instant it is swooped down
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: upon and struck, dying to the ground. Gosshawks are found
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: in the Middle and Western States during the autumn and winter.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: In the summer, they go far to the northward to
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: rear their young. They build a large nest of twigs
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and coarse grasses on some lofty branch of a tree,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and lay three or four eggs of dull bluish white
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: slightly spotted with reddish brown. These savage birds are very
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  Speaker 1: common in Maine, where they make great havoc among the
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: flocks of wild ducks and Canada grouse, and will, even
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: when driven by hunger venture an attack on the fowls
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  Speaker 1: of the farm yard. Its sharp eye always gleaming and
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: on the alert, The goshawks sweeps over fields and woods,
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  Speaker 1: changing its course in an instant by slight movement of
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: its rudder like tail, whenever any desired prey is sighted.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: It is the most restless of birds. It is almost
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: constantly on the wing, seldom alighting except for breakfast and dinner.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Audubon relates a curious instance of sagacity in a gosshawk,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: which he himself witnessed. A large flock of blackbirds flying
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: over a pond were pursued by one of these birds, which,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: dashing into the flock, seized one after the the other
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: of the poor little victims, apparently squeezing each one with
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: its powerful talons and then allowing it to drop on
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the surface of the water. Five or six had been
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: captured before the fleeing blackbirds gained the shelter of a
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: thick forest. The goshawk then swept leisurely back, and with
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: graceful curves, descended into the pond and collected its victims,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: taking the dead birds one by one and carrying them
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: away as if laying up a store for its evening meal.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Instances have been known where this bird has itself fallen
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: a victim to its own designs. Dead goshawks have been
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: found with their talons hopelessly entangled in thorn and furze
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: bushes upon which they had pounced with the object of
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: seizing some little rapid or squirrel which had sought shelter
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: beneath the undergrowth. A hunter once witnessed such an occurrence,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: the rabbits scampering away in safety across the field, while
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the great berg remained in tangled in the bush. The
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: hunter forbore to shoot at the little rabbit, which it
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: had made so fortunate an escape, and killed the wicked
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: bird of prey instead. Gosshawks are found in nearly every
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: portion of Europe, and have sometimes been trained to assist
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  Speaker 1: in hunting, but as they are more ferocious than the falcon,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: they are less easily controlled and are always on the
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: watch to regain their liberty. A smaller variety of the
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: great hawk family, but once spreading equal terror among small birds,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: is the sparrow hawk, a bold, provoking bird with dark
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: brown back and wings and breast of rusty brown or
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: grayish white, crossed by narrow bars of a darker tint.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: The sparrow hawk feeds mostly upon small birds, but it
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: will also catch moles, field mice, and even grasshoppers. It
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: flies low, skimming along but a few feet from the ground,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: its sharp little eyes always on the watch for prey.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: When tamed, the sparrow hawk becomes affectionate towards its owner,
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  Speaker 1: but will rarely accept civilities from any other person. One
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: of these birds, which had been tamed by a lady,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: was accustomed to perch on the should of its mistress
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: and eat from her hand. It was intensely jealous and
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: would fly savagely at any one to whom his mistress
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: showed the least favor. This particular pet proved as troublesome
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: as a thieving cat. For was any fine fat chicken
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: or partridge left lying on the kitchen table. If the
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: cook's back was turned for a moment, the prize was
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: either mangled or borne away to a hiding place by
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the mischievous bird. The sparrow hawk is not a nest builder,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: but will usurp the nest of the crow or some
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: other large bird. If a deserted nest can be found,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: the sparrow hawk will immediately take possession, but if no
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: such presents itself this bad hearted quarrelsome bird does not
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  Speaker 1: hesit date to depose the rightful owner and proceed to
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  Speaker 1: occupy a home to which it has neither right nor title.
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  Speaker 1: The sparrow hawk, the malicious henhock, the cruel pigeon hawk
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  Speaker 1: are very common throughout the United States and Europe. End
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  Speaker 1: of section.
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  Speaker 5: Five, Section six of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue
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  Speaker 5: seventeen February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 5: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 5: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: by April six zero nine zero, California, United States of America,
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  Speaker 5: Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen February twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 5: eighteen eighty. Uncle Phil's Thimble by Eleanor Elliott. A ragpicker,
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  Speaker 5: That's just what I am, sighed a poor girl who
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: stood at one of the long tables in the rag
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: room of a large paper mill. Down each side the
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: table stood a row of girls, some older, some younger
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: than herself, all miserably clothed, and all with worn, pinched faces.
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: These girls came each day to their work, with an
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: eager look in their eyes, which burned brightly in the morning,
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: flickered fitfully through the day, and faded out at night,
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: leaving the patient tired look which wanton hunger in disappointment brain,
• 59:40
  Speaker 5: and which is always ready to take courage and look
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: forward once more. For in a pile of rags there
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: sometimes lay a treasure, an odd penny, an old knife,
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: a pair of scissors, something that might be taken to
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: the little pawn shop round the corner and sold. A
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: little while ago, a girl, a lucky gir girl, had
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: a find a bright silver quarter. Her good luck had
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: been whispered up and down the road, but no one
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: betrayed her fortune. When the overseer came through the room.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: No exultant look nor envious glance suggested anything unusual. For
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: this band of rage pickers had its honor, which it
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: held to as closely as the most compact trades union
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 5: in the land. To some of the girls, the thoughts
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: sometimes came, is what we find really ours? But long
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: generations of workers in the mill had appropriated these fines,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: and it had become a custom, if not a right.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: Today nance at the head of the table felt a
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: keener longing than usual to secure something. She had never
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: felt the utter dreariness of her loneliness and poverty so
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: strongly as she had in the last bright Christmas season,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: which had been to her only a vision, not the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 5: sweet reality that it becomes to us, who bring it
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: close to us in happy anticipation weeks before it really comes,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: who live in its light and peace, and cheer in
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: its sweet givings and receivings, and keep its memory with
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: us throughout the year. For a whole year, Nance had
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: been at work in the mill and had had nothing
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 5: but her regular five cents salary. Now her long, nervous
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 5: fingers ran rapidly through the pieces, making four divisions, as
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 5: she called linen, cotton, woolen silk, linen, cotton, woolen, silk,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: and the different bits dropped into their proper piles like
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: falling leaves, while the girl on her right took the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: cottons and assorted them, and the girl on her left
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 5: went through the woolens in the same way, and a
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: girl further up took the silks. A stranger was always
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: amused to watch the long rows of quiet bodies, nimble fingers,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 5: and moving lips, and to hear the half whispered counting
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: and calling of colors as they divided the pieces. To day,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 5: Nance had a bag to pick from. Here lay her chance.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: The girls who took the rags from the bags were
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: the most apt to find treasures, and their turn came
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 5: only once a month. She was fast nearing the bottom
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: of the last bag. Every time she thrust her hand in,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: her heart beat fast, and she thought, shall I keep
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: it if I find anything? Once more? And her hand
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: touches something cold, Her fingers close round it, and she
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 5: draws it out. Her head swims. She clutches the table
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: with her other hand to keep from falling. Perhaps, after all,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 5: it is only a button. She collects herself and peeps
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: slyly into her hand a gold thimble. No one has
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: seen it, no one knows, and Nance slips it into
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: her pocket and goes on with her work. But somehow
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: it doesn't run smoothly. It is silk, cotton woolen linen,
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: and then cotton woolen, linen, silk, And the girls find
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 5: fault because the piles are mixed. And then the bell rings,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: and they are free for today. Cautiously, Nance makes inquiries
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: about the fine. How much did they sell things for
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: if they found any, my aunt said. One girl once
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: found a gold ring, and the jeweler give her a dollopoid.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: He melted it down, explained another. They all is do that.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: He told me one day that if I ever found
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: a golden breast pin or a bracelet, which ain't no
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: ways likely, you will, says he fetch it to me,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: and I'll give you what's right for it. So Nance's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: find was really worth money, more money too, than she
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 5: could earn in many days steady toil. What would it
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: not buy? Food, clothing, warmth, and everything seemed within her
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: reach now that she held that source of wealth in
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 5: her hand. Tain't stealing a hope, thought Hans, course not,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know who it belongs to. When alone, Nance
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: took out the thimble. What a dainty little thing it was.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: She tried it on each of her hard bony fingers
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: and laughed to see the poor, grimy things wearing golden crown.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: Why there were letters on it, real writin, cried Nance,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 5: as she paused under a street lamp to spell the word.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: By its light lunst I could read written that first
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: must be a capritain. That's what they call them, big fellows.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: That stands first a kinnep a general with his soldiers. Oh,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know what the capritains never got acquainted. When
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: I went to school. The common letters was good enough
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: for me. That tall one that's L, and there's round. Oh,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 5: then R and then I with the dot l oh
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: lo R, I read Laurie and E and then another
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: tall L on the end. That's emmy l Mel Laurimel.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: Now what's the captain's name, Lauramel, Laurrimel. I've heard that
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: name some errs. Why it's her that came that day?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: Mother lay a dying and spoke so softlike, and the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: gentleman with her he called her Laurrimel. No, that warn't it. Florimel, Floramel,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: that's the name. Tain't your now, nance, you know where
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: it belongs. You ain't got no right to it now.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: And then came other thoughts. What's a gold thimble to her?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: She can buy all she wants gold thimbles and gold
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: scissors and gold needles, and sit in a gold chair
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: and so on a gold gown. She hadn't no business
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  Speaker 5: leaving a gold thimble in a rag bag. Them that's
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  Speaker 5: careless has to pay for it. The curtains were drawn
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: in an elegant house on the avenue. A bright fire
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: burned in the grate, throwing a warm glow on the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: delicate walls, the beautiful pictures and the snowy marble statues,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: and reflecting itself in the long mirrors, seemed as it
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: sparkled and glowed, the only thing of life in the room.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: For the young girl, who lay back in the luxurious
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  Speaker 5: depths of the large chair by the hearth, with fair
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: hands lying listlessly in her lap, was as white and
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  Speaker 5: motionless as the statues around her. Now and then her
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  Speaker 5: lip quivered, and an occasional stole from under her long lashes,
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  Speaker 5: But she did not look up till a gentleman entered
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  Speaker 5: the room, then sprang into his arms and sobbed out
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: in replied to his question of how she had spent
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  Speaker 5: the day. I've been perfectly miserable, Papa. I've lost my thimble,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: the thimble Uncle Phil gave me. I'd give everything in
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 5: the world to see it again. Why, my dear little girl,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: that would hardly be worthwhile when you can get another
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: for a few dollars we'll go tomorrow and buy the prettiest. Ah, Papa,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: you don't understand. All the money in the world can't
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: buy a thimble to take the place of the one
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: Uncle Phil gave me. It was the last thing he
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: ever bought, was it, Darling?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 5: And he said that morning, Floramel, can you sew pretty well?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: And I laughed and said, of course not, Uncle Phil.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: What's the need of my sewing? Great need, great need,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: little niece? He said, sewing is woman's most womanly work.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: And though you may never need to sew for your
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: if you knew how you might teach hundreds of poor
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: girls to sew and clothe themselves and their families. My
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 5: little daughter teaching a sewing school. How funny it would be.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: So that afternoon we went into shreds and selected one
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  Speaker 5: and had my name engraved on it. And that night
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: Uncle Phil was taken ill. So of course I feel badly, Papa,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: don't you see why? Yes, Floramel, But perhaps we shall
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: find this thimble. Have you had Janet search for it?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 5: Indeed I have all day long. I had it yesterday
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: at work on my Kensington, and think Janet must have
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: taken it up among the bits of worsted when she
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: put them into the scrap bag, and Anne sold all
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 5: the scraps last night to the ragman. Oh, dear, I
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 5: shall never see it again, if you please, sir, said Jacobs,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: appearing in the doorway. There's a vagrant at the basement door.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 5: Three times I've sent her away, and three times she
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: has returned, every time asking for miss Florimel and saying
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 5: she must see her. To see me at the basement door.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: How strange, and Florimel forgot her tears in her eagerness
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: to see what the poor child at the door could
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: want her. Papa hurried downstairs after her and saw her
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: face radiant with joy as she held in her hand
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: a gold thimble, while a scantily clothed girl stood beside her,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: awkwardly twisting the corner of her shabby shawl Oh, Papa,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: this girl Nancy found my thimble among some rags and
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: brought it back to me. Well, what can I do
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: for her, Papa? How do you know whose the thimble was?
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: My child?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: I warn't sure, Sir, faltered Nance, whose honor had outweighed
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 5: her longing for money and the comfort it would bring,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: and had brought her through the long city to seek
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: the rightful owner of the thimble. I warn't sure, but
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: I knew her name for herself, And a gentleman came
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 5: much to see my mother long ago. That was Uncle Phil,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 5: said Floramel. He used often to take me when he
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: went to visit the poor. But how did you know
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: where I lived? I knew the house because he told
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: me to come here unst for some soup for mother,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: and I came and got it. How is your mother now?
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: She's dead?
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Miss?
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: Sobbed nance, and so is Uncle Phil. And the two girls,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: the one so fair and beautiful and carefully guarded, the
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: other so pale and pinched and friendless, forgot for a
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: moment all but their sorrow, there, longing for the dear
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: dead faces they could never see again. But Floramel's papa
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: called Janet to see that Nancy was warmed and fed
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: after her long cold walk, and took Floramel into the
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: library to see what they really could do for this
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 5: poor but honest girl. Floramel at first insisted upon having
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: her own little maid, but her papa convinced her that
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: Nancy was too ignorant for such a position, and they
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: finally decided that the best thing to do for her
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: would be to give her a good home where she
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 5: could learn to do all kinds of nice work and
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: could also go to school. Why, Papa, I know the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: very place for Nancy. Nurse Susan lives all alone now
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: her niece has gone out to service, and Nancy could
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: live with her. That is a very bright thought, little daughter.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: It would be a comfort to Susan to have a
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: young girl with her, and the money we should pay
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 5: for Nancy's board would lighten her expenses. Let us send
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: now for Nancy and see if she likes the idea.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: Did nance like the idea? Did she like to think
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: she need never go back to the bustling, dusty mill,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: That she need not go again to that miserable tenement
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: house which she called home, where she shared one tiny
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: room with seven other girls, That she need not know
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: again what it was like to battle with hunger and cold?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 5: Did she like to feel that she should have a
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 5: home in the sweet, fresh country, That her work should
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 5: be in a garden, in a dairy, in a neat
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: little cottage, that clothing, food, and the learning to be
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: a good woman would lie within her reach? End of
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  Speaker 5: section six, Section seven of Harper's Young People, Volume one,
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  Speaker 5: issue seventeen February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. This is a
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  Speaker 5: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Recording by April six zero nine zero, California, United States
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  Speaker 5: of America. Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen February
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  Speaker 5: twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. Life on board a training Ship.
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  Speaker 5: Training ships on board which boys are taught to become
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: first rate seamen for an important portion of every navy,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: And in the accompanying sketches, our artist has endeavored to
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: convey correct ideas of the daily life of these boys
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 5: to those of our readers who live far in land,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 5: are not familiar with ships and sailors, and who perhaps
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: have never seen the sea. The first sketch is one
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 5: showing the boys undergoing a part of their sail drill
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 5: and engaged in furling the missent top Gallant sail and royal.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: The sails of a man of war are furled and
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: stowed with the utmost care and precision, so that the
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: ends of the yard look exactly alike, and sometimes the
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: boys have to do their work over and over again
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: before the critical eye of the officer watching them is satisfied.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: In storms, when the great ship rolls so that the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: yard arms sometimes touch the water lying out on them.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: In furling the sails is very difficult and dangerous work,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 5: and it is only on account of the constant drill
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 5: they have received during fair weather that the boys are
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 5: able to accomplish the task. Under these circumstances. Above all things,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: on these training ships, the boys are obliged to keep
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: themselves neat and clean. They are expected to bathe frequently,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: and are always compelled to do so on Sunday. The bathroom,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: provided with tubs, basins and a plentiful supply of water,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: is located in the bows in the extreme forward part
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 5: of the ship, generally amidships, but sometimes in the stern
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: of the ship is the school room for sailor boys
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: have other things to learn besides the practical sailing of
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: a ship. In this school room, the young sailors spend
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 5: four or five hours of each day and are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: And grammar.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: At noon or eight bells, as they say on shipboard,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: the bugles sound the dinner call, and from all parts
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: of the ship the boys tumble down the hatchways to
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: the bird's deck, wears a long row of short tables
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: swung from the ceiling, and where the young sailors eat
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 5: the bountiful dinner provided for them, as only healthy, hardy
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 5: boys can eat. The fourth or lowest deck of the
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 5: ship is called the oorlock deck, and it is here
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 5: that the boys stow away their muskets and cutlasses after drill.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 5: On this deck also the boys receive, at four bells
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: or six o'clock in the evening, the allowance of bread
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: and molasses or tracle that composes their regular supper. Next
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: to the sail drill, perhaps the most important is the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: gun drill, or practice with the heavy guns. This gun
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: drill is not important merely because the guns are to
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: be used in case of a fight, but because they
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 5: are also used in the firing of salutes. These salutes
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 5: must be fired whenever another maun of war comes into port,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 5: or a distinguished officer comes on board, on national holidays
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: and at money other times. Therefore, it is very important
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: that the boys should be familiar with the great guns.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 5: Each gun has its crew, each one of whom has
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: an especial duty to perform. The long cord that the
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: boy in the last picture holds in his hand is
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: called a lanyard, and as he pulls it with a
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: smart jerk, a hammer falls on the breach of the gun,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: and with a roar that shapes the ship, the great
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: gun is fired. End of section seven.
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  Speaker 6: Section eight of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 6: February twenty fourth, eighteen eighty. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 6: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 6: by Betty B. Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen
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  Speaker 6: February twenty fourth, eighteen our post office box, San Francisco, California.
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  Speaker 6: I am twelve years old and go to the Lincoln School.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 6: It is so called because it has a statue of
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: Abraham Lincoln in front of it. It was built in
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 6: eighteen sixty four, has over twelve hundred pupils enrolled, and
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 6: I think it is the best school in the city.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 6: I have been making vases out of Farrillon eggs to
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 6: send east to my cousins. The eggs come from the
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 6: Farrillon Islands, twenty one miles outside of the Golden Gate.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: They are of a blue color and have marks on
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: them that look like hieroglyphics. The birds that lay them
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 6: are a species of gull. I was born in San
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 6: Francisco and have lived here most of my life. Four
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: years I spent up in the mountains on a farm
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 6: or a ranch, as they call it here. Charles W. S. Farrillon,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 6: the name of these islands, near the entrance to San
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 6: Francisco Bay, is a Spanish word signifying a small pointed
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 6: islet in the ocean. The islands, of which there are six,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 6: are so called because they consist of rugged, towering peaks
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 6: of granite. A more desolate place could not well be imagined.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 6: There is nearly always a fierce wind blowing, and the
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: waves dash wildly into the numerous spouting caves along the
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: rocky coast. There is a lighthouse here, three hundred and
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: sixty feet above the sea, and its keepers are the
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 6: only human inhabitants of the desolate sea bound rock The
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 6: thousands of sea lions congregate upon the cliffs, and vast
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 6: numbers of gulls and wild rabbits make their home here.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: During the egging seasoned men visit the islands and gather
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: thousands of eggs for the San Francisco market. A very
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 6: interesting account of these islands is given in mister nord
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 6: Hoff's book on Northern California, Oregon and the Sandwich Islands
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: Fort Assinibuan, Montana Territory. I am always glad to see
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 6: young people come with papa's meal. Here in the wilderness.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 6: We do not often see nice papers, but then we
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 6: see what city people never see. Plenty of Indians. Many
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 6: of them are very poor and so hungry that they
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 6: pick bread and scraps of meat out of the swell
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 6: barrels to eat old stuff that the soldiers have thrown away.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 6: I think people should send the poor Indians something to eat.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: I send you a picture of some Indians as they
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 6: look hunting for food this cold day. I am only
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 6: nine years old and cannot draw very good pictures. Bertie Brown, Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: I have a canary, which is the only live pet
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 6: I ever had. It was eight months old the seventeenth
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: of February. I plant canary seed and let it grow
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: until it is about two inches high. And then I
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: give it to my canary. It likes to eat it
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: very much. Louis e where I live way off in
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 6: Washington Territory, and thought I would tell you something about
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: this distant country. We live near the Simcoe Mountains. They
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: are covered with evergreen pines. We can see the snow
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 6: capped mountains every day in the year, Mounts Jefferson Hood,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 6: Saint Helen's and Adams. It snows here sometimes in winter,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 6: but the wind comes up from the sea and takes
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 6: it away in a few days. I do not live
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 6: near any school, but I study and recite my lessons
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 6: at home. Six miles away, at the new town of Goldendale,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: there is an academy and they are teaching in it now.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 6: I am ten years old and was born in this country.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: Sometimes troops of Indians come riding past on their spotted ponies.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 6: They bring salmon from the Columbia River, huckleberries from the mountains,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 6: and now and then ponies to sell. I am very
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 6: fond of reading and am delighted with young people. I
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: read every word in it. Gertrude Bulch Hecatou, Arkansas. I
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 6: am a little girl eight years old. I take young
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: people and like it very much. I have a doll
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: named Laura Martin. I live on a cotton plantation on
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: the Arkansas River, and I can stand on the front
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: gallery of our house and see all the boats that pass.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: We have never been to school, and we have no
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 6: governess now, so Mamma has to teach us. We have
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 6: a great many pecan nut trees here, and there is
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 6: a pond near our house with a boat on it,
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: and my sister and I row sometimes. Cynthia R. Smith, Udica,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 6: New York. I am six years old. My birthday was
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 6: the eighteenth of January, and Mamma gave me a little party.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 6: We had a nice time and set down to tea
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 6: all by ourselves, without any grown people. I have two birdies.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 6: They will put their little heads clear out of the
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 6: cage and take seeds from my mouth. Sometimes they knit
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 6: my tongue, and one birdie will fly out right into
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 6: the cup I keep seed in. I taught them to
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 6: eat in that way by not letting them have anything
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 6: until they would take it. Bessie L. Carter, Papa brought
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 6: me the numbers of young people a few days ago.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: I have been waiting anxiously for them, and I was
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 6: so delighted when he gave them to me. I've known
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 6: all about Harper's publications for a long time. Mamma says
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 6: that Papa took Harper's magazine long ago, before the war.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 6: I like the stories, letter box and puzzles in Young
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 6: People very much, and I have succeeded in getting answers
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 6: to some of the puzzles. My pets are cats and dogs,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 6: and I would like to get a parrot. Alabama was
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: my native place, but now I live in Maryland. Lyddy B. Duke, Russellville, Arkansas.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 6: I thought you might like to know about Doctor Pruitt's boys,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 6: so I concluded to write you a letter. I am
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 6: Will aged twelve. Then there are Fred, Edward and Charlie.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: Papa takes Harper's Monthly, and Mamma takes the bazaar. And
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 6: when Young People was advertised, Papa proposed that each of
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: us give something and take that too. We four boys
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 6: earned just one hundred dollars picking cotton last fall, so
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 6: we all contributed. We like the paper very much and
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: watch for its coming, and we read everything in it.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 6: Will E. Pruitt, Grand Island, Nebraska. I am ten years old.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 6: My uncle takes young people for me, and I can
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 6: hardly wait until it comes. I have got the elephant
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 6: on his four legs, and he looks well. I have
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 6: a little prairie dog named Jenny. It lives in a
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 6: hole in the yard where I think it must have
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: a good nest, where I gave it lots of rags
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 6: last fall to put in the hole. It comes to
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: the house almost every day to get something to eat,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: and seems glad to see us. I have also a
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 6: little dog named frisk only I sold one half interest
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: in him yesterday for twenty five cents to a doctor
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 6: who lives next door. He wanted him for his baby
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 6: to play with. Can you tell me what kind of
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 6: a place a junk shop is?
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: Harry K.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 6: Heffelman. A junk shop is where old ropes, old anchors,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 6: old iron, and cast off odds and ends of all
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 6: kinds are kept for sale. There are many such shops
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: to be found in every large city, and if it
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 6: is a seaport, they are generally located near the water front,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: as a vast quantity of such rubbish is picked up
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 6: along the wharves. In New York City, junk dealers drive
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  Speaker 6: wagons round the streets and buy old stoves or any
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  Speaker 6: worn out household goods. Leanoke, Arkansas. I found in Mamma's
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  Speaker 6: front yard, near a brick wall a little pansy which
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  Speaker 6: I send you. It bloomed out the twenty ninth of January.
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  Speaker 6: Sarah F. S. It was fortunate for the little pansy
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  Speaker 6: that it was picked and pressed for Katy black Rites,
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  Speaker 6: also from Arkansas. There was a very pretty snow storm
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  Speaker 6: here on the second of February. It began in the
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  Speaker 6: morning and snowed all day ward. A p Your puzzle
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  Speaker 6: is neatly done, but as we have already published one
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  Speaker 6: having the same solution, we cannot use it. Wheeling, West, Virginia,
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  Speaker 6: can you tell me what five words in the English
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  Speaker 6: language and cion SRW Can any correspondent answer this question?
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  Speaker 6: JRB Jupiter will be evening star until March fifteenth, morning
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  Speaker 6: star until October sixth. Mars will be evening star until
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  Speaker 6: October twenty fifth. Saturn will be evening star until April seventh,
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  Speaker 6: morning Star until October eighteenth. Venus will be morning star
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  Speaker 6: until July thirteenth, Evening Star the rest of the year. Kate,
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  Speaker 6: you may write us any interesting things you know about
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  Speaker 6: prairie dogs in Kansas, Jonathan. You will find brief accounts
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  Speaker 6: of the ancient Roman road builders in any history of Rome,
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  Speaker 6: also in Appleton's Encyclopedia under Rhodes Lemprier's Classical Dictionary also
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  Speaker 6: contains much information, especially of the Appia Villa. May Wt
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  Speaker 6: the youthful fellow Matthesians would be a pretty name for
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  Speaker 6: your literary society. Phillow Matthesian is a Greek word signifying
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  Speaker 6: loving to learn or lover of knowledge. Walter S. Dodge.
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  Speaker 6: The picture on the first page of Young People number
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  Speaker 6: fourteen is a facsimile of a pencil drawing reproduced by
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  Speaker 6: a photographic process. Very neat wiggles are received from R.
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  Speaker 6: VR Hattie Strong and F. B. Myers, which we regret
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  Speaker 6: being unable to publish.
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  Speaker 4: Louise S.
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  Speaker 6: You write so prettily that we are sorry your enigma
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  Speaker 6: is not good enough to print. Do not be discouraged.
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  Speaker 6: Try again, and the next time see if you cannot
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  Speaker 6: make rhymes. John F. S. Persevere with your locomotive engine drawing,
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  Speaker 6: and some day you may be able to put it
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  Speaker 6: to good use. Engines and machinery of all kinds are
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  Speaker 6: good things for a boy to become familiar with, and
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  Speaker 6: if you are really fond of them, cultivate your inclination
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  Speaker 6: all you can. Nedda Franklin, Freddie C.
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  Speaker 4: Ma S.
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  Speaker 6: Pussy K and Robbie V. R are very youthful correspondents
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  Speaker 6: who favor us with letters printed with remarkable neatness. May
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  Speaker 6: R also writes a very legible wiggle when you learn
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  Speaker 6: to print, little girl write again. Acknowledgments for favors are
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  Speaker 6: due to C. Fanny Anderson, William F. B. John T. I,
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  Speaker 6: Percival Hill, Frank Yarrington, A. G. T. Tenney, Florence g
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  Speaker 6: Istalina Beach, George P. R or Maud albert A, Mary Buchanan,
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  Speaker 6: Jenny E. Anderson, Myrtle Gilman, Alice M. S. Minta Holman,
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  Speaker 6: Mary F. W. Walter, Jennings Locke, S. Sue Dawson, Ida
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  Speaker 6: s Annie Black, Freddie L. Minnie Parker, Della L. Grimshaw,
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  Speaker 6: Bert Wellman, Eliza E. Krohle, Clarence C. Culver, Ada, r
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  Speaker 6: idah M, C. Mary Landon, s Arthur D. Miller, Eddie Karnes,
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  Speaker 6: Bertha B. H.
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  Speaker 4: Dai, Z J M.
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  Speaker 6: Katie Belch WCB correct answers to puzzles received from F. E. K. T. P. S. Heffelman, C. F. Langdon,
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  Speaker 6: Louise Swift, MAUD K. Smith E and M. D. Florence Schaffenberg,
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  Speaker 6: H M.
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  Speaker 2: H J. H.
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  Speaker 6: Merrick, Harry E. Sears, Lewis K. Davis, M. Barton, PTE. Carberg,
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  Speaker 6: The boys Bessie Mama and I Katie W. Harry S.
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  Speaker 6: Hussy Kellogg answers to puzzles in number fourteen. The following
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  Speaker 6: solution to a Latin word square on page one hundred
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  Speaker 6: fifty five is from a correspondent in Pennsylvania. Roma r
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  Speaker 6: o m a olam o l I m Milo m
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  Speaker 6: I l o amore a m o r. The square
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  Speaker 6: is made of magic spells that speak of whore end
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  Speaker 6: of Homer the third, the glory that was Greece, the first,
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  Speaker 6: the grandeur that was Roma, tales of eating and of drinking,
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  Speaker 6: end of falling roofs upholden call up Milo Milo backward
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  Speaker 6: murmurs olum. These all these were in the olden time,
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  Speaker 6: long ago. Lo in Yon brilliant window niche my fourth,
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  Speaker 6: how statue like he stands his bow and arrow in
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  Speaker 6: his hands. Are a more from the regions which are
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  Speaker 6: holy lands. Answer to throwing Light on page one hundred
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  Speaker 6: sixty eight draft d R A U g h T
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  Speaker 6: draft d R A f T. We have received numerous
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  Speaker 6: answers to the puzzle picture on page one hundred sixty eight,
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  Speaker 6: which are correct, with the exception that more beasts are
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  Speaker 6: there than any one has yet discovered. A great many
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  Speaker 6: little folks have found seven, only one has found eight.
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  Speaker 6: There are nine concealed in the picture, and we give
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  Speaker 6: one one more week in which to hunt for them
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  Speaker 6: before publishing the answer. End of section eight Section nine
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  Speaker 6: The Firefly game. The game of Firefly is very graceful
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  Speaker 6: and amusing for dull days or winter evenings in the house.
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  Speaker 6: Out of a piece of bristol board, an old playing
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  Speaker 6: card will do. Cut a figure in the shape of
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  Speaker 6: the annexed diagram. If you have watercolors and can paint
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  Speaker 6: it brightly in red and green or red and yellow stripes,
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  Speaker 6: all the better. Lay it flat on the cover of
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  Speaker 6: a book, so that part of one of the wings
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  Speaker 6: projects over the edge. Hold the book at a slight angle,
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  Speaker 6: pointing toward the ceiling, and then with a pencil or
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  Speaker 6: pen holder, give the projecting wing a smart blow so
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  Speaker 6: as to send it flying upward. It will go twirling
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  Speaker 6: through the air toward the ceiling and then return twirling
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  Speaker 6: back to the neighborhood of your feet. The game consists
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  Speaker 6: in trying to catch it on the cover of the
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  Speaker 6: book when it comes back. If you succeed, it counts
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  Speaker 6: you ten points. If you fail, you allow the fly
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  Speaker 6: to lie where it has fallen. Your adversary now takes
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  Speaker 6: his turn, and if he fails to catch his fly,
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  Speaker 6: then you see which fly has fallen nearest to a
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  Speaker 6: certain line on the floor on which you have previously agreed,
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  Speaker 6: And the owner of the nearest fly scores five. Whoever
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  Speaker 6: first scores one hundred wins the game. A school in Morocco.
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  Speaker 6: If one happening to be in the south of Spain
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  Speaker 6: some day should run across the Straits of Gibraltar in
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  Speaker 6: a southwesterly direction, he would come to the ancient city
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  Speaker 6: of Tangier in Morocco. Here he would see many curious sights,
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  Speaker 6: but none more picturesque than the schools or children, of
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  Speaker 6: which there are several. A row of tiny slippers at
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  Speaker 6: the door, and a hum of childish voices inside prompt
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  Speaker 6: the passer by to look in. He sees a room
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  Speaker 6: empty of furniture and lit only by the open door.
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  Speaker 6: The schoolmaster of veritable Moses in appearance, is squatted on
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  Speaker 6: his haunches in the center, and around him squat his pupils.
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  Speaker 6: Each has his slate before him and repeats his lesson
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  Speaker 6: with monotonous chant, keeping his body moving backward and forward,
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  Speaker 6: as if he were rowing hard the whole time against stream.
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  Speaker 6: The schoolmaster's whip is of sufficient length to reach every
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  Speaker 6: boy around him, and now and then, without rising from
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  Speaker 6: his seat, he touches one or other up in the
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  Speaker 6: same manner as the driver of a mail coat, which
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  Speaker 6: takes a fly off his leader's ear. The imperturbable gravity
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  Speaker 6: of the master and the comical looks and quaint attire
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  Speaker 6: of the boys form a picture which could not be
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  Speaker 6: transferred to canvas. The chicken puzzle here is an orange
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  Speaker 6: with fore cuts of the scissors and the prick of
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  Speaker 6: a pin transform it into a chicken charade. My first
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  Speaker 6: belongs to an ancient race, they say. His pedigree he
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  Speaker 6: can trace to the time of the Ark and before.
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  Speaker 6: But this I know. Though his family tree be spread
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  Speaker 6: as wide as the sounding sea, he was not a
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  Speaker 6: companion of Noah. My next, in death plays a cruel part,
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  Speaker 6: and yet tis dear to a woman's heart and sets
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  Speaker 6: her pulse beating high. Of all sizes and shapes that
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  Speaker 6: can fly or bound, when most is inflated, it trails
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  Speaker 6: on the ground when base than it soars in the sky.
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  Speaker 6: My whole is extracted from earth and from sea, compounded
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  Speaker 6: with care from obstacles. Free tis deer to the Yankee
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  Speaker 6: I own. Tis famous in song and famous in story,
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  Speaker 6: and yet tis indebted for most of its glory to
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  Speaker 6: the time when twas taken alone. End of section nine.
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  Speaker 6: End of Harper's Young People, Volume one, issue seventeen February
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  Speaker 6: twenty fourth, eighteen eighty