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Feb. 1891 
fear) <>n that estate declared to us that the yard was "full of fissures, 
whose open months had been closed by sweeping dirt, etc., into 
them." The darkness was too intense, and our lamplight too 
led ilc in the wind to permit us to see distinctly that night The 
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would certainly detect the next morning and that they might he 
Mverelv punished for attempting to misinform us. They were 
noi trying to frighten us. neither to portray in false colors the 
