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...shaft went still deeper. Workers were lowered in wicker baskets from the surface to cut out the blocks. The rock far below proved to below proved to be less solid than at the surface and big chunks flaked off and were dislodged by the baskets. Finally on March 7, the 100 foot mark was reached and still the bottom was not attained. Tapping on the wall the workers discovered a hollow sound, however, and correctly assumed that the shaft went down by one of the great chambers...
...Japanese, fireflies are the souls of departed lovers lighting the paths of living swains. Whereas in Occidental climes a robust suitor will kiss a flower and toss it to his sweetheart with truculent self-possession, a Japanese lover reverently presents a firefly encased in a small wicker basket...
...sunken vessel is a strong room; in the strong room $4,000,000 in gold and silver bullion. The sea-gropers knew just where to cut through the side of the hull. Weather permitting, they planned to hoist out the 30 tons of treasure in great wicker baskets lifting a ton at a time. Two weeks they estimated the job would take them, before they sailed back to New York to enrich their backers with a 10,000% profit...
...tapestried chamber still as the Sistine Chapel there stood, surrounded by soft lights, a radiator. Bungalows, batik vacuum-cleaners, stained-glass windows, Empire rooms, Renaissance rooms, furnaces, mosaics, copper leaders, shingles, door panels, floor-cement, player-pianos and bathrooms, everywhere bathrooms. Crystalline with sunken tubs, silver faucet eburnean wicker toilet seats, they met the eye at every turn?exquisite little chapels, deifying the modern frenzy for sanitation...
Next day, this "rookie," with his team mates, appeared on a baseball diamond. All over the South, fields "' were crawling with such players. From every cranny of the U. S., they had come, with suitcases of leather, of wicker and with duffle bags; some of them as unprepossessing as the dismal fellow just described, others; indeed, far worse; many brisk, dapper veterans who scorned the scrofulous looks of such unseasoned players and shouted harsh commands at them. They were the company of men?numbering over 500?who play baseball in the American and National Leagues...