Swatch Product 13 Color:Red for it was the favourite

for it was the favourite loafing place of all the rougher elements of the town

It was not a cheering prospect

McMurdo had obtained a temporary job as bookkeeper for he was a well-educated man

Through the growing gloom there pulsed the red glow of the furnaces on the sides of the hills

but not before it had been observed by a working man who had seated himself upon the adjoining bench

Swatch Product 13 Color:Red for it was the favouriteIt was the fourth of February in the year 1875. It had been a severe winter, and the snow lay deep in the gorges of the Gilmerton Mountains. The steam ploughs had, however, kept the railroad open, and the evening train which connects the long line of coal mining and iron working settlements was slowly groaning its way up the steep gradients which lead from Stagville on the plain to Vermissa, the central township which lies at the head of Vermissa