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porter, and singer, and at the point of meeting 

 a contest occurred. There was a disturbance in 

 the waters, and a surging like that of opposing 

 hostile crowds of people ; the rival currents of 

 water strove each to be first in the race along a 



THE HURRYING STREAM. 



wider path. They seemed to jostle each other 

 intentionally, pushing and recoiling, then, clasped 

 in a whirlpool, reeling like exhausted wrestlers, 

 and, sinking helpless, grasping for aid the flotsam 

 and jetsam of the stream and dragging it with 



