The Argosy — page 133: what you’re looking at

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Letters from Majorca. 121 each other just as if the sense of hearing had no existence, or at best a very distant one. They would almost raise the dead. Often I have to fly, or I know that something terrible would happen. Nothing in this island is soft and musical, except, perhaps, the voices of the frogs; and they, in comparison with their English species, have that excellent thing even in trog-land, a voice sweet and low. SOLLER. In my letter to-day, I have to introduce you to a new part of the island, where frogs abound, so that the topic is somewhat apropos. It is well when one subject leads up to another, so that by a series of mental evolutions, as it were, the links in the chain of one’s narra- tive fit into each other “ with a smooth result.” Soller, this new part of the island, is one of the most fertile and most beautiful. There is no railway to Soller, and once more we iad recourse to the dignified and lordly barouche. VOL. XLIV, I comicbooks.com