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cloud spread very much and dissolved in rain which presently cleared the sky After this phenomenon was over and also the surprise Harry began to wonder how electricity could get where there was so much water but he soon-observed a rainbow and arising mist under it which his fancy soon transformed into a female form. He then remembered the witch of the waters at the Alps who was raised from them by-takeing some water in the-hand and throwing it into the air pronouncing some unintelligable words. And though it was a tale it-affected Harry now when he saw in

the clouds some-end of Harry thing and Lucy like it.

63. The several reasons aforesaid, which induce me to reprint this piece of, too literally, “composition,” are-the first, that it is a tolerable specimen of my seven years old spelling;-tolerable only, not fair, since it was extremely unusual with me to make a mistake at all, whereas here there are two (takeing and unintelligable), which I can only account for by supposing I was in too great a hurry

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