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THE REIGN OF TERROR 



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those workmen who had had sufficient courage to 

 remain. It was a strange and amusing sight to see 

 these shelters perched on the top of water-tanks, 



"PERCHED ON THE TOP OF WATER-TANKS." 



roofs and girders anywhere for safety while some 

 even went so far as to dig pits inside their tents, into 

 which they descended at night, covering the top over 

 with heavy logs of wood. Every good-sized tree in 



