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Page 18
For when a few short steps I westward made The river here a different scene
displayed , Its noisy roar seemed now a distant hum , Calm was the surface - -
and the stream was dumb , Silent though swift its course - - and such I cried The
life of ...
For when a few short steps I westward made The river here a different scene
displayed , Its noisy roar seemed now a distant hum , Calm was the surface - -
and the stream was dumb , Silent though swift its course - - and such I cried The
life of ...
Page 19
It seemed quite like magic . So one day , finding a jar or bucket standing in the
yard , I determined to try and see this wonderful thing . I first with a mug poured
some water in till it was about an inch or two deep , and then collected all the
small ...
It seemed quite like magic . So one day , finding a jar or bucket standing in the
yard , I determined to try and see this wonderful thing . I first with a mug poured
some water in till it was about an inch or two deep , and then collected all the
small ...
Page 21
I got my little spade and scraped up stones off the gravel path , and with it , of
course , some of the soft gravel , but instead of the water rising , it merely turned
to mud ; and the more I put in the muddier it became , while there seemed to be
even ...
I got my little spade and scraped up stones off the gravel path , and with it , of
course , some of the soft gravel , but instead of the water rising , it merely turned
to mud ; and the more I put in the muddier it became , while there seemed to be
even ...
Page 23
This seemed so delightful that one day John provided himself with the matchbox ,
salt , and potatoes , and having climbed up the steep bank behind our house , as
we often did , and passed over a field or two to the woods beyond , to my great ...
This seemed so delightful that one day John provided himself with the matchbox ,
salt , and potatoes , and having climbed up the steep bank behind our house , as
we often did , and passed over a field or two to the woods beyond , to my great ...
Page 24
In our friend ' s pretty grounds , where we often had tea , there was a summer -
house with a table formed of a brick - built drum , with a circular slate slab on the
top , and this peculiar construction seemed to us so appropriate that we named it
...
In our friend ' s pretty grounds , where we often had tea , there was a summer -
house with a table formed of a brick - built drum , with a circular slate slab on the
top , and this peculiar construction seemed to us so appropriate that we named it
...
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| Title | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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