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they were up they pulled them—which to say the lens'
onions." Mang other things he toll ina quiet subdued voice as was a stillness abroad wi vie itself felt. think that was ons the greatest features of this mes wond-rout day, the vast crowd—which it is estimated must be numbered at something like a million—and yot barely a sound, At owe time our talk was broken in upon bj amall disturbance, 4 man had fallen from one of the highest branches of a tres by and had broken his arm; later, I heard it was a bad case of compound fracture and that he was detained in St. George's Ho: and most probably would lose his How sad it seemed I saw him as he being removed: such a nice-looking y fellow of certainly not more than five: twenty.
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