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The Innocents Abroad
Part 3 of 6

CHAPTER XXVI
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They cut their grain with a horrid machine that mows down whole fields in a day.

If I dared, I would say that sometimes they use a blasphemous plow that works by fire and vapor and tears up an acre of ground in a single hour--but -- but--I see by your looks that you do not believe the things I am telling you.

Alas, my character is ruined, and I am a branded speaker of untruths!" Of course we have been to the monster Church of St.Peter, frequently.
I knew its dimensions.

I knew it was a prodigious structure.

I knew it was just about the length of the capitol at Washington--say seven hundred and thirty feet.


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