The Water Lily On the Danube Being a Brief Account of the Perils of a Pair Oar
The Water Lily On the Danube Being a Brief Account of the Perils of a Pair Oar
Robert Blachford Mansfield
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sons, with a boy in the shafts, and another push- ing behind. The temperature of the mine had been up to this time very pleasant, but it now began to be rather cool. Before we had gone far, our attention was directed to a bright glimmering star in the distance, which turned out to be the daylight at the entrance of the gallery, and gra- dually got larger and larger, till we shot out like ' ridiculous mice ' into the open air and a warm shower. We found that we were at the bottom of the hill jus...t over the town, and our hats and sticks were waiting for us at a miner's cottage. The whole expedition took about two or three hours; it was very interesting, and exceedingly amusing. We had about half an hour to spare before the return diligence started, so we strolled down to the bridge over the Salza, to look at the stream, which was exceedingly swollen ; we found that some stacks of wood had been carried away higher up the river, and that logs were continually coming down with the rapid torrent ; numbers of people were on the bridge, armed with long spears, which they stuck into the logs, and then hauled them up ; it was by no means an easy job, and many of the clumsy hands lost their spears altogether; OUE GOOD INTENTIONS.
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