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    The Man In The Reservoir
    The Man In The Reservoir
    The Man In The Reservoir
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    The Man In The Reservoir

    By Charles Fenno Hoffman

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Title: The Man In The Reservoir

      Author: Charles Fenno Hoffman

      Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23167]

      Last Updated: February 4, 2013

      Language: English

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      THE MAN IN THE RESERVOIR

      By Charles Fenno Hoffman

      You may see some of the best society in New York on the top of the Distributing Reservoir, any of these fine October mornings. There were two or three carriages in waiting, and half a dozen senatorial-looking mothers with young children, pacing the parapet, as we basked there the other day in the sunshine-now watching the pickerel that glide along the lucid edges of the black pool within, and now looking off upon the scene of rich and wondrous variety that spreads along the two rivers on either side.

      They may talk of Alpheus and Arethusa, murmured an idling sophomore, who had found his way thither during recitation hours, "but the Croton in passing over an arm of the sea at Spuyten Duyvil, and bursting to sight again in this truncated pyramid, beats it all hollow. By George, too, the bay yonder looks as blue as ever the Ægean Sea to Byron's eye, gazing from the Acropolis! But the painted foliage on these crags!-the Greeks must have dreamed of such a vegetable phenomenon in the midst of their grayish olive groves, or they never would have supplied the want

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