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Melbourne House, Volume 1

CHAPTER VIII
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What are _you_ going to do while I play Neptune in a bucket ?" "I am going to build cities and raise up mountains.

Daisy, suppose we lay in a supply of these little white stones, and some black ones----" While this was done, and Daisy looked delighted, Mr.McFarlane seized upon a tin dipper which June had brought, and filled it at the river.
Capt.

Drummond carefully poured out the water into the Mediterranean, and opened a channel through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, which were very full of sand, into the Black Sea.

Then he sent Gary off again for more, and began placing the pebbles.
"What is that for, Capt.

Drummond ?" asked Daisy.
"These are the Alps--white, as they should be, for the snow always lies on them." "Is it so cold there ?" "No,--but the mountains are so high.


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