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The Girl Crusoes
Contributor(s): Strang, Mrs Herbert (Author)

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 ISBN: 1502369915     ISBN-13: 9781502369918
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $6.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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- Literary Collections
Physical Information: 0.22" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.33 lbs) 104 pages
 
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At noon on a day late in September, the express train from London rested, panting and impatient, for a brief halt at the little countryside station of Poppicombe. The arrival and departure of this train was the event of the day to most of the inhabitants, not only of Poppicombe, but of the surrounding villages. There were quite half-a-dozen people standing on the platform, and the station staff, consisting of two men and a boy, were moving about briskly. One man was busily engaged in handing various newspapers and packages, which had been thrown from the guard's van, to the people who had been awaiting them; the other man, the stationmaster, was exchanging a few words with the guard, at the end of the platform; while the boy porter, looking about disconsolately for some doors to bang, distinguished himself by suddenly slamming the open door of the luggage van, much to the astonishment of the guard. As soon as the train had rumbled away, the young porter seized a newspaper from a pile standing on a trolly, opened it at a particular page, and, after reading a few words, let forth a wild war-whoop.
 
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