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The Bush Boys

CHAPTER TWO
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Still he could not think it was that.
He continued to gaze at the strange phenomenon, endeavouring to account for it in various ways.

It seemed to be rising higher against the blue sky--now resembling dust, now like the smoke of a widely-spread conflagration, and now like a reddish cloud.

It was in the west, and already the setting sun was obscured by it.

It had passed over the sun's disc like a screen, and his light no longer fell upon the plain.
Was it the forerunner of some terrible storm ?--of an earthquake?
Such a thought crossed the mind of the field-cornet.

It was not like an ordinary cloud,--it was not like a cloud of dust,--it was not like smoke.


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