Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 442
t the atmos-phere was elec-trical, and it hadH the peculiar un- bearable sultrinessthat precedes a thun-der-storm. The earthseemed literally to steam,and sent up a kind of mist,through which everythinglooked ghostly and unnatu-ral. If the children werestill moving, it was becauseto stop for any… … which seemed like a lava-bed, still exposed to theterrific power of a sun suchas we of more temperateclimes can have no conception of, phys-ically exhausted, suffering agonies ofthirst, yet still moving on slowly. Howtheir hearts had sunk as they watchedthat sun rise! With what dread hadthey seen…
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