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THE CONVICT MINES OF KARÁ
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that if not prevented by force he "must go." As Ulysses had himself bound in order that he might not yield to the

OLD HARD-LABOR CONVICT.

voices of the sirens, so the poor old convict had himself committed to prison in order that he might not hear and obey the cry of the cuckoo, which was so intimately asso-