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"Poor mountain sprite," he continued, "thy
power and glory recede! Man flies over thee
– thou mayst go and learn of him."
The garrulous old man made a grimace, and
muttered something to himself – but we were
just by the bridge before the inn. The
steam-boat glided through the opened way, every one
hastened to get on board, and it directly shot
away above the Fall, just as if no Fall existed.
"And that can be done!" said the old man.
He knew nothing at all about steam-boats, had
never before that day seen such a thing, and
accordingly he was sometimes up and sometimes
down, and stood by the machinery and
stared at the whole construction, as if he were
counting all the pins and screws. The course of
the canal appeared to him to be something quite
new; the plan of it and the guide-books were
quite foreign objects to him: he turned them
and turned them – for read I do not think he
could. But he knew all the particulars about
the country – that is to say, from olden times.
I heard that he did not sleep at all the whole
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