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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 dud
Its 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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