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THE STORY OF CARL ADLER.

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ca quarry had been opened, and then left to
srow up with brambles and tufts of grass
and weeds. It is such a cavern as children
love, affording a hundred amusements to those who are
inquisitive, Barry was, for the time, one of the boys.
He sat in the shade of the mighty tree, with book in
hand, but unopened. His eyes were looking over at
the distant hills, and the intermediate landscape
checkered with field and orchard, and seamed with
hedges and brooks. But the noise and antics of his
young companions kept him from musing long on any
one thing. Grave as he might be, it was impossible
for him not to turn his head and smile, when he saw