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Jim Morris eagerly jumped at the proposition. Ishmael sent for a carriage, and they started; the professor this time riding inside with Ishmael, as he always did when they were alone. They spent the whole afternoon in sight-seeing, and returned at sunset. The judge had not awakened, nor did he awake until roused by the ear-stunning gong that warned all the guests to prepare for dinner.
They are crammed choke-full with every known mechanical contrivance for the production of ear-stunning noises. Wherever they burst forth into utterance, the whole parish is instantly admonished of their whereabouts, and, with the natural instinct of John Bull for a row no matter how it originates forth rushes the crowd to enjoy the dissonance.
For many weeks the battle for Verdun was signalized by the most terrific artillery fire in history. No words can tell of the ear-stunning roar of the guns, or depict the horror of the tons of steel daily crashing and splintering amid massed bodies of men, while the softly-falling snows of late winter covered, but could not conceal, the ensanguined landscape.
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