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The adventures of Peter Peterkin (1916)

Bear, Gilly, Gabriel, Gilbert W · New York : Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co. · leaf 100

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A young peasant girl came toward him XVIII THE VALLEY OF SILENCE AS soon as dawn wasover the glacier thenext day, Peterkin was onhis feet and sipping a goodgulp from his flask of theWater of Bounceability.You see, he dreamed aboutthis magic gift of the prin-cesss as he lay a-sleeping...and really,… … 84 THE ADVENTURES OF PETERKIN itself . . . then down into the valley on the other side. As he floated to the earth there, a strange hush seemedto fall on him. It was the quiet sense of absolute stillness.He walked forward a little way, then stopped in bewilder-ment. Not a sound—not a whisper of…

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