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The official report of the battle was as follows: "Mine-sweeping having been in progress during the last ten days inside the straits, a general attack was delivered by the British and French fleets on Thursday morning upon the fortresses at the Narrows.
Body's function is two-fold. It both limits the soul and expresses it. It narrows the activity of the person to a point, and thus serves as a fine instrument for action upon matter. At the same time it draws out the potentialities of the soul and fixes its development. The post-resurrection body was apparently less limitative and more expressive.
If I can keep it out of the market for a week, my speculation is assured, I can realize half a million, at least. Frazier is an old man, weak: he crosses the Narrows to-morrow morning on horseback." He stopped abruptly, playing with a shell on the mantel-shelf. "I understand," in a dry voice; "you want him robbed; and my hands came at the right nick of time." "Pish! you use coarse words.
With that he pulls his plane lever and we begins to climb some more. You hardly know you're doin' it, though. Up or down don't mean anything in the air, where the goin' is all the same. Only as we gets higher the Sound narrows and Long Island stretches further and further. And, take it from me, that's the way to view scenery! Up and up we slid, just soarin' free and careless.
Down below there where you see them two big cottonwood trees is 'Big Elk' crossin'. There's another somethin' like it back up the crick a ways, on the other side of the ranchhouse, called the 'Narrows." He laughed grimly. "But we don't use them crossins' much they're dead lines; generally you'll find there's a Circle Cross man or so hangin' around them with a rifle.
"Sometimes, if the vein widens out enough, you get extra hands to work the wider face, but this size crew generally works out best. You'll soon get used to it so you'll know how many you need. If more, just yell and you'll get 'em. If it happens the vein narrows so you can't use all these to best advantage, someone working a wider vein can use your extras temporarily."
Between the bay of Raritan and that of New-York there are two communications, one between the islands of Staten and Nassau, called the Narrows, which is the ordinary ship-channel of the port, and the other between Staten and the main, which is known by the name of the Kilns.
I had idled down the trail from the swans' basin in Stanley Park to the rim that skirts the Narrows, and I saw her graceful, high-bowed canoe heading for the beach that is the favorite landing-place of the "tillicums" from the Mission.
For the screaming behind was like nothing on earth but the wailing and sobbing of a little child only tenfold louder. 'Twas just as you'd fancy a baby might wail if his little limbs was being twisted to death. At the hill's foot, as you know, a stream crosses the lane that widens out there a bit, and narrows again as it goes up t'other side of the valley.
What did she see in the scene before her, he wondered: the deep valley, brilliant with early sunshine; the magnificent sweep of wooded slopes; Pine Mountain and the peak-like Narrows, where through it the river had worn its patient way; and the Cumberland Range, lying like a cloud against the horizon, and bluer and softer than the sky above it.
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