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Updated: May 20, 2025
Most people think it a fine thing to have a bit of land to call their own and leave to their children; but suppose a stinking and undrainable swamp, full of foul springs what consolation would it be to the proprietor of that to know, while the world lasted, not a human being would once dispute its possession with any fortunate descendant holding it?"
For each flood deposits its silt upon the immediate bank of the river, raising it year by year; till as in the case of the 'Levee' of the Mississippi, and probably of every one of the old fen rivers the stream runs at last between two natural dykes, at a level considerably higher than that of the now swamped and undrainable lands right and left of it.
But, as thou hast protested, we will confer of these doubts together, and will seek out the resolution, even unto the bottom of that undrainable well where Heraclitus says the truth lies hidden.
"It is known as Westmarsh," he observed. "I suppose you know where it is." Bobby, who had already started the machine and had placed his hand on the steering wheel, gave a jerk so violent that he almost sent the machine diagonally across the street, and Ferris laughed aloud. His little joke was no longer a secret. "Westmarsh!" Bobby repeated. "Why, I own that undrainable swamp."
Most people think it a fine thing to have a bit of land to call their own and leave to their children; but suppose a stinking and undrainable swamp, full of foul springs what consolation would it be to the proprietor of that to know, while the world lasted, not a human being would once dispute its possession with any fortunate descendant holding it?"
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