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After the first disappointned He had felt, a little illogically, that this giving of a

whole day to the picnic was not quite the thing His Puritan conscience

impressed him with the sacredness of work He settled down to the fact

of the rainstornition of its inevitability, and

a resolve to improve his time

To that end, after breakfast, he drew on a pair of fleece-lined

slippers, donned a sweater, occupied two chairs in the well-known

fashion, and attacked with energy the pages of Le Conte's Geology

This book, as you very well know, discourses at first with great

interest concerning erosions As it convinces you that

a current of water, being doubled in swiftness, can transport a mass

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proposition is abstrusely proved As Bennington had resolved not to

rams conscientiously

until he understood it Then he passed on to an earnest consideration

of why the revolution of the globe and the resistance of continents