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Selected Stories

INTRODUCTION
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It was less problematical than the ancient treatment of Romulus and Remus, and apparently as successful.
When these details were completed, which exhausted another hour, the door was opened, and the anxious crowd of men, who had already formed themselves into a queue, entered in single file.

Beside the low bunk or shelf, on which the figure of the mother was starkly outlined below the blankets, stood a pine table.

On this a candle-box was placed, and within it, swathed in staring red flannel, lay the last arrival at Roaring Camp.

Beside the candle-box was placed a hat.

Its use was soon indicated.


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