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| | The Marble Mountains |
 | | Deeper in the mountain, reached by an unlighted passage dubious to find one's way through, or by a farther outside opening, partly covered by indiscriminate masses of rock that have from time to time tumbled from the overhanging cliff, is an older tunnel, long since unworked. |
 | | On this the marble mass can roll a bit to the side as the men mount the lever, and at last there is room for the big chain to be carried around the end of the block. |
 | | It was here that a young mountain farmer-the very type, in thin-lipped, honest-eyed face and quiet, lithe movement, and even in the old long-barreled muzzle-loader he carried, of the famous Green Mountain boys of early days-told me a strange tale, a tale of a kind of peril not to be imagined among these rock-ribbed mountains. |
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