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The Story of a Mine

CHAPTER VI
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I have seen the application." Victor (beginning to appreciate a rodential odor).

"Si! I had forgotten.
Art thou sure it was in the valley ?" Miguel (persuasively).

"In the valley and up the falda."* * Falda, or valda, i.e., that part of the skirt of a woman's robe that breaks upon the ground, and is also applied to the final slope of a hill, from the angle that it makes upon the level plain.
Victor (with decision).

"Certainly.

Of a verity,--the falda likewise." Miguel (eying Victor).


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