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... not carry them—more still of the red gold of the land of the Nibelungs. Bold Sivrit’s hands were to share all this out among them. Then they gave him as a reward Nibelunc’s sword. They were ... innocent maiden of the early adventures to a ‘she-devil’. The supernatural elements found in the first half of the lay are for the most part lacking in the second half, with the exception of the water-sprites, ... edge. They held the gold-coloured bridles in their hands. Their horses’ breast-straps were of silk. Thus they arrived in Burgundy. The people everywhere gaped at the sight. Then many of Gunther’s...

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... river. 2. There was a large group of rocks the middle of the river. 3. It was dark when Hawkeye woke Duncan . 4. The younger of the sisters let a cry. 5. It seemed though the Hurons filled the woods. 6. ... It is the scream of a horse great pain. 7. The noise echoed the valley. 8. Some of the travellers were able sleep. 9. Hawkeye took a knife. 10. The Indian was then thrown the edge into the river I. ... about it. The Indians took the horses away and the two groups met again near a river. They then went and hid in a cave which was by the side of the river. They heard terrible screams in the night...

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... . . . . 21 The Second Postulate of the Einstein Theory of Relativity. . 22 Suggested Alternative to the Postulate of the Independence of the Velocity of Light and the Velocity of the Source. ... which is now codified as the second postulate of relativity. part ii. the space and time of the ether theory. 7. Rise of the Ether Theory. Twelve years before the appearance of the Principia, Römer, ... theories of light and in favor of the principle which has led to the second postu- late of the Einstein theory. One of the consequences of the Einstein theory, however, has been the deduction of an...

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... fertilizing of the land: the direct addition of plant- food, and the improvement of the physical structure of the soil. The latter office is often the more important. Lands that, on the one hand, ... these are some of the best of the joys of gardening. In this spirit we should take up the work of handling the land. The draining of the land. The first step in the preparation of land, after it ... delight in a garden comes in the one month of the opening season and the other month of the closing season. These are the wheels may straddle the rows of low plants. Many of these wheel-hoes are provided...

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... It was of solid mahogany. One end was cracked and dented from the capsize of the wagon in Rock Canyon. A bullet-hole, plugged, in the face of the top drawer, told of the fight with the Indians ... dragging her down the aisle. She drummed and shrieked the length of it. The door opened, and a vast, muffled roar of machinery burst in; and in the roar of it the drumming and the shrieking were ... on the floor, her long shriek rising in the pent room to the acrid smell of scorching cloth. The women at the boards near to her scrambled, first, to the hot iron to save the cloth, and then...

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... kissed the palm of her hand and put his head closer to hers. The merry clatter of dishes was increasing as the dining-room filled up. Here and there voices were raised in snatches of song. There ... permitted to return, and with heads bent together, they talked in whispers. THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 3 They had dinner in the open-air, tree-walled dining-room, and ... "Never heard of them," he confessed. "Did they live anywhere around here?" She laughed. "No, They lived in England. They were the first English, and you know the Americans...

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... down there in a minute." THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 4 After dinner there were two dances in the pavilion, and then the band led the way to the race track for the ... race track. Here, first of the events, the men were lining up for a tug of war. The contest was between the Oakland Bricklayers and the San Francisco Bricklayers, and the picked braves, huge ... over the ground and disappeared under the avalanche of battling forms of the onlookers. Leaving Saxon under the protection of the Irishman in an outer eddy of calm, Billy plunged back into the...

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... "On the Banks of the Wabash." And he sang the song through, undeterred by the bedlam of two general fights, one on the adjacent platform, the other at the opposite end of the car, both of ... each other. When the aisles and platforms were packed by the hilarious crowd, the train pulled out for the short run from the suburbs into Oakland. All the car was singing a score of songs at once, ... o'clock the Al Vista band played "Home, Sweet Home," and, following the hurried rush through the twilight to the picnic train, the four managed to get double seats facing each other....

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... sighed. And then, appalled at the length of all the poem, at the volume of the mystery, she rolled the manuscript and put it away. Again she dipped in the drawer, seeking the clue among the cherished ... face of the family and of community morality and demanded the divorce of Laura from her criminally weak husband; and who on the other hand, had held the branches of the family together when ... upon the chest of drawers. It fell beside a small square case of dark and tarnished leather. With a feeling as of profanation she again seized the offending photograph and flung it across the...

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... know. The blood ebbed from her face with the apprehension and fear his appearance caused. She was afraid of the rough bulk of the man; of the heavy brown eyes, dominant and confident; of the ... that he hurt none of the other fellows' feelings in the way the girls hurt hers. They all but asked him outright to dance with them, and little of their open pursuit of him escaped her ... itself, but the quality of it and the misuse of it, that affronted her. The beating he had given the gentle Mr. Moody had meant half- hours of horror to her afterward. Always did the memory of it...

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... LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER 8 The music stopped at the end of the waltz, leaving Billy and Saxon at the big entrance doorway of the ballroom. Her hand rested lightly on his arm, and they were ... you are the master of other men," she said softly, aware herself of pride in the strength and skill of him. "It does," he admitted frankly. "I'm glad I went into the game ... out in the hills?" She did not answer immediately, and for the moment she was seeing the nightmare vision of her last buggy-ride; of her fear and her leap from the buggy; and of the long...

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... behind came the admiring cheer of the neighborhood children, and Saxon, with a sigh of content, knew that the happy day had at last begun. THE VALLEY OF THE MOON JACK LONDON BOOK 1 CHAPTER ... effect. Still on the chair, all in the moment of quick clear-seeing, she drew the skirt tightly back and raised it. The sight was good to her, nor did she under-appraise the lines of the slender ... assuming the calm she did not possess, but which she must impart to the screaming bedlamite upon the floor. The light frame house leaked the noise hideously, and Saxon knew that the houses on either...

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