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Off Santiago With Sampson

Off Santiago With Sampson

Otis, James

Paperback

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1985382172
ISBN13: 9781985382176
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
THE sky was as brass from the glowing East upwards, a stifling heat radiated from stone and wood and iron-a close, reeking heat that drove one back from the very mention of food. The five million odd people that go to make up London, even in the cream of the holiday season, panted and gasped and prayed for the rain that never came. For the first three weeks in August the furnace fires of the sun poured down till every building became a vapour bath with no suspicion of a breeze to temper the fierceness of it. Even the cheap press had given up sunstroke statistics. The heat seemed to have wilted up the journalists and their superlatives. More or less the drought had lasted since April. Tales came up from the provinces of stagnant rivers and quick, fell spurts of zymotic diseases. For a long time past the London water companies had restricted their supplies. Still, there was no suggestion of alarm, nothing as yet looked like a water famine.

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