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Ethalind ought to jump up with "whoa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISS BLAYRE'S BENEFIT. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

Have ridden several times on the Erie and Grand Trunk Railroads, and have had more or less experience in Cambridge horse-cars off the track, but never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

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