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Title: Greatest wonders of the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders Landscapes
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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vants one wild night, and butchered by someWhiteboys who were waiting outside and called for hisblood. I had been told at Belfast that there was a corpsein the inn : was it there now ? It had driven off, the car-boy said, in a handsome hearse and four to Dublin thewhole way. It was gone, but I thought the house lookedas if the ghost was there. See, yonder are the black rocksstretching to Portrush : how leaden and grey the sea looks!how grey and leaden the sky ! You hear the waters rush-ing evermore, as they have done since the beginning of theworld. The car drives us with a dismal grinding noise ofthe wheels to the big lone house : theres no smoke in thechimneys; the doors are locked. Three savage-lookingmen rush after the car : are they the men who took out Mr.Hamilton—took him out and butchered him in the moon-light ? Is everybody, I wonder, dead in that big house ?Will they let us in before those men are up ? Out comesa pretty smiling girl, with a curtsey, just as the savages are
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THE GIANTS CAUSEWAY IO5 at the car, and you are ushered into a very comfortableroom; and the men turn out to be guides. Well, thankHeaven its no worse ! I had fifteen pounds still left; and,when desperate, have no doubt should fight like a lion. The traveller no sooner issues from the inn by a backdoor, which he is informed will lead him straight to theCauseway, than the guides pounce upon him, with a dozenrough boatmen who are likewise lying in wait j and a crewof shrill beggar-boys, with boxes of spars, ready to tear himand each other to pieces seemingly, yell and bawl inces-santly round him. Im the guide Miss Henry recom-mends, shouts one. Im Mr. Macdonalds guide,pushes in another. This way, roars a third, and dragshis prey down a precipice; the rest of them clamberingand quarrelling after. I had no friends; I was perfectlyhelpless. I wanted to walk down to the shore by myself,but they would not let me, and I had nothing for it but toyield myself into the hands of the guide who had

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