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bai'nh Smith stands sorrowfully solus j she sees splendid spruces surrounding shady spots ; she sees summer’s sun shining ■ she smells sweet savours ; Sweet songsters singing silvery strains serenade Sarah. •Still she sighs. Sunset’s soft shades settle silently, still she stands sadly sighing. Suddenly she started. She saw some stranger strolling silently southward. “ Stop-!” she shouted : “ Stop, stranger. Sarah Smith says so. Samuel Slocum, successful states*man, smooth speaker, started, saw Sarah, seemed surprised, said soliloquisingly ! “Strange; seemingly scarce sixteen; so simple, still so singularly suspicious. She seems strangely sad. Say something, Sarah,” She, stopping silent struggles, said : “ Surely some stranger seeing sights. Shall Sarah Smith shun "such! scarcely.’' So, strolling silently straugenvard, she said, “ Sarah Smith scorns suspicious scandals. She seeks sympathy ! seeks she successfully?” Still shone silvery streams slanting southward. Samuel Slocum sat sweetly smiling ; .Surah Smith seated suspiciously •somewhere. Sunset’s serene splendour suggested Slipper. Still she sat. She sought sympathy successfully ; supper seemed superfluous. Some six Sundays succeeding she signed so.no sketches, Sarah Smith SLmiiii.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 196, 12 August 1873, Page 7
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167Alliteration. Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 196, 12 August 1873, Page 7
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