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And when the chosen came, they found the earth ready to receive them lifted above the baneful breath of river-bottom and marshland, drained by rivers full of fish, filled with woods full of game, and underlaid all with thick, blue, limestone strata that, like some divine agent working in the dark, kept crumbling ever crumbling to enrich the soil and give bone-building virtue to every drop of water and every blade of grass.
Just as he was abandoning the task in wrath, the child suddenly popped up, wide awake and interested. "I want zwieback," he announced. Mrs. Swinburne, having read in a child-study book that dry food was bone-building, had brought her youngest up on long crumbly strips of zwieback, and he was seldom seen without one. "What you givin' us?" asked the conductor.
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