| | 1 | Author: | Thanet, Octave | Add | | | Title: | The Day of The Cyclone  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was a warm day.
Perhaps but for that
it might not have
happened, since Captain Barris is a most
temperate man. Unluckily the day was
warm, very warm,
and Archy was tired with a long ride in
the "accommodation train:" and a vision of a glass of beer — cool, foaming,
pleasantly stinging — rose before him.
He had just been stationed at Rock
Island Arsenal, and all his knowledge of
the town of Grinnell was the fact that he
had inherited some property within its
limits. Quite innocently, therefore, he
stared about him for some sign of refreshment. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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