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The story of a short life (1887)

Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Browne, Gordon · London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, New York, E & J.B. Young · leaf 23

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r its lack of fragrance. In this common ruin be every lesser flower involved : blue beds ofspeedwell by the wayfarers path—the daintier milkwort, and rougherred rattle—down to the very dodder that clasps the heather, let then7perish, and the face of Dame Nature be utterly blackened ! Then : Shave… … CAMP AND COMRADES. 17 from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south,and shall raise on your shaven heath clouds of sand that would notdiscredit a desert in the heart of Africa. By some such recipe the ground was prepared for that Camp ofInstruction at Asholt which was, as we…

Children's stories, English

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