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CHAPTER VI
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He is in front of me, and each of his soles is pierced by a valve which draws in water from the saturated ground.
"The unions, monsieur----" he cries to me in the wind, "why, it's dangerous to point at them.

You haven't the right to think any more--that's what they call liberty.

If you're in _them_, you've got to be agin the parsons--( I'm willing, but what's that got to do with labor ?)--and there's something more serious," the lamp-man adds, in a suddenly changed voice, "you've got to be agin the army,--the _army_!" And now the poor slave of the lamp seems to take a resolution.

He stops and devotionally rolling his Don Quixote eyes in his gloomy, emaciated face, he says, "_I'm_ always thinking about something.

What?
you'll say.


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