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The adventures of Peter Peterkin (1916)

Bear, Gilly, Gabriel, Gilbert W · New York : Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co. · leaf 39

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indeed, he felt so weak from want of food that hecould scarcely stand. He lay down on the sunny stretchof the sands and half closed his eyes. He could see, in ablur, that the low line where the sea and the sky met, faraway, was smothered in black clouds—and that little streaksof angry red seemed to… … P ETERKIN woke upwith a start. Some-thing was roaring in hisears. A rushing showerof sand stung his cheeks.The wind was shriekingbehind him, across the low hill and in among the palm trees.At his feet, the waves of the surf were hammering downupon the beach in great, black, frothing mountains,…

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