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I have been all my life a sort of amphibious animal, having, like many an old Roman, learned to swim long before I had learned to read. The bounding backs of the billows were my only rocking-horse when I was a child, and dearly I loved to ride them when a fresh breeze was blow...
'The first is a petition of T. J., farmer at Mirecleugh, addressed to the justices of peace for Dumfriesshire, reclaiming against a fine of L.5 which Collector Mitchell had impo...
2. Chapter 2I sank into a profound slumber, heavy and dreamless, within a minute after I lay down--the result, no doubt, of the utter exhaustion of every faculty, both of body and mind. Pos...
1. Chapter 1I have been all my life a sort of amphibious animal, having, like many an old Roman, learned to swim long before I had learned to read. The bounding backs of the billows were my...
4. Chapter 4Now South Wales, poor in copper, is exceedingly rich in coal. Vast beds of the finest bituminous and anthracite coal exist in rich profusion in its inexhaustible coal-fields. Fr...
5. Chapter 5The last thing we did was to visit the Hafod Schools. These excellent schools--one for boys, one for girls, and one for infants--were erected about six years ago, and are still...
6. Chapter 6O weary heart! O heart of wo! raise up thy toil-worn brow; The fields, the trees, the very breeze--they all are resting now: The air is still, there is no sound, save that uncea...