Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 216
for their purpose; but hardlyhad their search begun, when, in the midst of adense thicket, they came upon a sight which filledthem with astonishment. Beneath a honey-combed How They Took the Gold-Train 197 cliff, which supported one enormous cotton-tree,was a spot of some thirty yards square… … SOLEMNLY HE APPROACHED, STAFF IN HAND and cassava plants were flourishing luxuriantly, thewhole being surrounded by a hedge of orange andscarlet flowers. There it lay, streaked with longshadows from the setting sun, while a cool southernair rustled in the cotton-tree, and flapped to andfro the…
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