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The right flank of our line being thus ‘in the air’ out in the desert, it was a comparatively easy matter for enemy spies, disguised as peaceful natives, to pass round it under cover of darkness, and approach our positions from the rear in daylight. Native hawkers, other than those with passes from the Intelligence… Tovább »

Mortimore is nervous this afternoon, Mrs. Payton said, hurriedly; that horrid puppy worried him. Conchology means shells, doesn’t it? Freddy says he has a great collection of shells. I was thinking of sending him that old conch-shell I used to use to keep the parlor door open. Do you remember, Bessie? Yes, Mr. Maitland is… Tovább »