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tops and send them sailing away through space; the pilot-house feli
to rocking and straining and cracking and surging, and I went down
in the hold to see what time it was.

I AM ANXIOUS ABOUT THE TIME.
People boast a good deal about Alpine thunder-storms; but the
storms which I have had the luck to see in the Alps were not the
equals of some which I have seen in the Mississippi Yalley. I may
not have seen the Alps do their best, of course, and if they can beat
the Mississippi, I don't wish to-