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(40)Could you peep into that empty room there at rear of the narrow shop over the way, you could see the skeleton of a swinging cot, and by a touch you would find it yet able to rock on its pivots. Almost beneath it, amongst the scattered brickbats and powdered plaster on the floor, lies a great iron shell; unexploded.A dudIts copper band bears the groove marks of the gun which fired it. Its brazen nose, almost undamaged, is red with brick dust.You wonder why it did'nt explode.I wondered at that.We often wonder and marvel at such things
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