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group of nearly thirty people brought to a stand-still on its bank. They were for the most part laundresses, who had gone out in the morning as usual to the sulphurous springs, a mile or two
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NARROW ESCAPE NEAR CRADOCK.
further up the river, but on their return had found their progress arrested by the sudden rising of the flood. I was greatly tempted to turn my horse’s head round, and if I could have believed that the case was of trifling importance, I should unhesi-