Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 241William Blackwood, 1937 - England |
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The wall had gone too far . Tide - tables and facts he laid before the farmer ; he could undertake no repairs this year , but he would post watchers on the wall at the danger times and arrange to concentrate the stock in the homestead ...
The wall had gone too far . Tide - tables and facts he laid before the farmer ; he could undertake no repairs this year , but he would post watchers on the wall at the danger times and arrange to concentrate the stock in the homestead ...
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The real trouble was that work on the wall was held up by the wet . He fretted in vain : the ground was un- workable , and it was not until the following April that they really started , at the north- western corner , for some ob- scure ...
The real trouble was that work on the wall was held up by the wet . He fretted in vain : the ground was un- workable , and it was not until the following April that they really started , at the north- western corner , for some ob- scure ...
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A few of them scrambled to the top of the sea - wall by the creek and were trying to get across . ... Never for hundreds of years had such a tide been known almost over the walls in the creek itself , and now the flood in a series of ...
A few of them scrambled to the top of the sea - wall by the creek and were trying to get across . ... Never for hundreds of years had such a tide been known almost over the walls in the creek itself , and now the flood in a series of ...
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Contents
THE CHRONICLES OF LITTLE COVE 340 | 231 |
THE FOURTH SERVICE BY FRANCIS H SIBSON 563 | 377 |
THE KNIGHT OF THE CLOUD PALACE 723 | 400 |
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