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mud, & there is something appealing about the way it appears to be clutching at the open air, as tho' there was still a desire, contained in the decaying body beneath, to be relieved from the all-conquering mud that claims it.

The shell that bursts & kills a man, also digs him a grave in which he is often buried, but in many cases, sooner or later, another shell may dig him up again, & scatter to the wind his bones, & also with it that little wooden cross which has had (confused among the inscription, which has been writen in indelable

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