raked from the literature of all times and countries that has a family resemblance to one or more of those ideas. If this hope is baseless novelists may throw aside their pens, and betake themselves to some more peaceful occupation.

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Augusta set her teeth and endured in silence" (Frontispiece) "And to think that all this comes out of the brains of chaps

"Augusta gently lifted the sheet, revealing the sweet face of

little Jeannie in her coffin".

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"A mighty vessel steamed majestically out of the mouth of the Thames "

The Kangaroo at Sea

"She's going!-by George, she's going!" said the seaman

"Nothing but the white wave-horses, across which the black cormorants steered their swift, unerring flight"

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"O Auntie! Auntie!" Dick sang out in high glee, "here's a big ship coming sailing along"

St. Michael

"Down went the books with a crash and a bang, and, carried
away by their weight, down went Mr. Addison"
"Augusta turned her back to the Judge, in order that he might
examine what was written on it "

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"Just as the men came up, she got away somehow, and stood