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Show A Alreel la anfls- ' I recall now that vast band of stagnant stag-nant dust lending from Hie station to I tlie town, separated from lis lummnd-tng lummnd-tng monotony by sundry, depression j nnd grades ludU-Atcd along tho lino by tbo oieavated ilebrts which fringed it edges) Willi A double row of Inf.mt trees marking It curb lines, encli ono of which wn thrlrelcd to a crlip by I the blistering beat Addoil to this I luochcry At regular lutcrvalt stood bed In malt mil diamond And circles, cir-cles, 11111 with plantt burned tun cln- tier, their very blossoms, which no man bad dared plnck, dead for inontlis, I an I still standing brown and duitbo- I gilme-I. Hilcli Is the great boulnvard loading from the railway to tbo psUee, Moreover, these particular rvloni-mei.lt rvloni-mei.lt were not undo At n Mason when It might bare la-en possible to luiva Ju-tllled their exlttcnco, but In tho lie-ginning lie-ginning of the hot season And during I tho contlnuanoe of a drought wlilcli hutcd four months. Indeed, many f rumlaent opimattldtilit did not Ileal-Into Ileal-Into to aiy, nnd sny orwtdy, tliat the liasta Willi which tliese s called lin , pruvemtnuwero carried out was due n much to the unsettled condition uf J iuUIo atTalrs a to nnylldng cite, mi I I that the old adage uf laaUiig liny wbllo the tun tlione liad a double meaning In till com. 1", llopkinsou timltli In Century. |