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The two men to Shelton's left were talking. "What! You don't collect anything? How's that? Everybody collects something. I should be lost without my pictures." "No, I don't collect anything. Given it up; I was too awfully had over my Walkers." Shelton had expected a more lofty reason; he applied himself to the Madeira in his glass.
New York to-day, the Empire State of all the great States of the Commonwealth, brings in through her grand avenue to the sea eighty per cent. of all the imports, and sends forth a majority of all the exports, of the Republic. She collects and pays four-fifths of the taxes which carry on the government of the country.
Nevertheless, the administration was much less centralized under Louis XIV., than it is at the present day. In England the centralisation of the government is carried to great perfection; the state has the compact vigor of a man, and by the sole act of its will it puts immense engines in motion, and wields or collects the efforts of its authority.
Kashmir is truly and indeed the paradise of birds, for there no man molests them, and no schoolboy collects eggs, and the result is a fascinating fearlessness, the result of perpetual peace and plenty. I regret exceedingly that my ornithological knowledge is extremely limited.
"Where are the shoes of yesteryear?" murmured Psmith to himself. "I should say at a venture, sir, that they would be in the basket, downstairs. Edmund, our genial knife-and-boot boy, collects them, I believe, at early dawn." "Would they have been cleaned yet?" "If I know Edmund, sir no." "Smith," said Mr. Downing, trembling with excitement, "go and bring that basket to me here."
And with that he lapsed for some moments into silence, his brows contracted in the frown of one who collects his thoughts.
A large lake, Des Allemands, collects the waters from the higher lands on the river and bayou, and by an outlet of the same name carries them to Barataria Bay. Lying many feet below the flood level of the streams, protected by heavy dikes, with numerous steam-engines for crushing canes and pumping water, and canals and ditches in every direction, this region resembles a tropical Holland.
It is ten miles inland from Sheher as the crow flies. About 8 o'clock next morning we started, not knowing precisely whence or whither, and determined to keep together as much as possible. We followed for miles the bed of a stream, which collects all the water from this part of the akaba, and gradually develops into Wadi Adim, the great approach to the Hadhramout.
"I have heard of you from Mr. Hunter. And so you collect butterflies! Very interesting and active occupation for any one that ahem! likes that sort of thing. Very." "He collects obituaries, too," said Hunter, immensely amused. "You mustn't overlook the obituaries, Mr. Inglesby." Mr. Inglesby favored the collector of butterflies and obituaries with another speculative, piglike stare.
"Farrel has gone to El Toro to attach my bank-account and my sheep," the Basque explained in a whisper, leaning low over the gray's neck. "His father had an old judgment against me. When I thought young Farrel dead, I dared do business in my own name understand? Now, if he collects, you've lost the Rancho Palomar help me, for God's sake, Parker!" Parker's hand fell away from the reins.
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