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Identifier: outing53newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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ingle room, bytthere was a lean-to at the rear, and a littlecave ran back under the hill. The ownerinvited me in to rest myself, and, as weentered, a gray cat departed through amissing windowpane. I been spendin a year or two in thenew gold region at Tonopah, said myhost; but 1 had to get away from thereon account of my health. The water is fullof borax, soda and alkali, and the Tonopahpeople been dyin like sheep. Some of em,when they begin to feel sick, go to Carsonand boil a little of the alkali out of theirsystems in the hot springs that are there.But I come here, and the first thing I knewI was in bed with the pleurisy. I had it ingood shape and pretty near died. The doc-tor said the cabin needed ventilation, andhe ordered that windowpane broke whereyou see the cat go through. That evening, at Virginia City, I droppedin at the office of the paper on which MarkTwain began his literary career as a re-porter. There was no one behind thecounter in the little front room, and I went 283
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