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Page 524
... face was a heavy head of red , covered with a wide , ragged som- brero . This completed the costume of the midnight apparition . It was on horse- back , waving a red banner . The motley crowd took up their leader's refrain , con ...
... face was a heavy head of red , covered with a wide , ragged som- brero . This completed the costume of the midnight apparition . It was on horse- back , waving a red banner . The motley crowd took up their leader's refrain , con ...
Page 525
... face any transition period in our succes- sive industrial or commercial epochs . The " Everybody flush " era was over . The working miner , with his habitual improvidence , was hit the hardest , and the first to feel the effect of ...
... face any transition period in our succes- sive industrial or commercial epochs . The " Everybody flush " era was over . The working miner , with his habitual improvidence , was hit the hardest , and the first to feel the effect of ...
Page 526
... face of monu- mental difficulties , its President , Mr. M. H. de Young , revealed in a single sen- tence , as with a magic lantern's flash , the unnatural incubus under which this mag- nificent giant of a commonwealth had been tied up ...
... face of monu- mental difficulties , its President , Mr. M. H. de Young , revealed in a single sen- tence , as with a magic lantern's flash , the unnatural incubus under which this mag- nificent giant of a commonwealth had been tied up ...
Page 529
... face , when , standing in its belly , I looked up- Far , far above me glimmered a pale light , like a star veiled in mist , " And that , " said the dried - up voice of the lit- tle sexton , " that is the bung - hole . It is three feet ...
... face , when , standing in its belly , I looked up- Far , far above me glimmered a pale light , like a star veiled in mist , " And that , " said the dried - up voice of the lit- tle sexton , " that is the bung - hole . It is three feet ...
Page 532
... face but that of Brother Ambrose was not among them . Afraid to ask questions I disengaged myself from the curious brothers and ran to his haunt in the garden and to the cellar , but no one was there ; only a scrubby boy emptying the ...
... face but that of Brother Ambrose was not among them . Afraid to ask questions I disengaged myself from the curious brothers and ran to his haunt in the garden and to the cellar , but no one was there ; only a scrubby boy emptying the ...
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