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The Nether World

CHAPTER XII
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''Ere he comes up smilin'!' cries his friend of the cardboard nose, and we shake our diaphragms with mirth.

One of the party is an unusually tall man.

'When are you comin' down to have a look at us ?' cries a pert lass as she skips by him.
A great review of the People.

Since man came into being did the world ever exhibit a sadder spectacle?
Evening advances; the great ugly building will presently be lighted with innumerable lamps.

Away to the west yonder the heavens are afire with sunset, but at that we do not care to look; never in our lives did we regard it.


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