The Argosy — page 223: what you’re looking at

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Letters from Majorca. 209 it is convict work, one would imagine it to be the height of enjoy- ment. But this especial road up to the Puig Major must be the very worst in the world. It cannot have a rival, Loose stones frequently brought some of us down upon our knees. The very mule occasionally staggered and stumbled. Sometimes it would become <— ST MARIQUITA AND ROSITA. almost perpendicular in the steeper places, and how the paniers kept on remains a miracle to this day. - Our party became detached and straggling, and I was soon far behind the others. A. and B. were ahead. H. C. went in for what he called his regulation step of twenty-seven inches, a sort of seven- jeagued stride without the seven-leagued boots. I came last of all, in company with the mule, and once (I tell you this in confidence), T gave in and mounted it for half an hour. VOL. XLIV. Digdzed oy a — comicbooks.com