Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in (1880)
Markham, Richard. · New York : Dodd, Mead, and Co. · leaf 15
nting out from anold trunk something for the trip, she heard some one hurryingup the crooked stairs; and the next minute one of the maidscame panting toward her with a yellow envelope in her hand. Its a telegram, Miss Carrie. Your papa told me to take itto you as quickly as I could. Carrie tore it… … THE ARRIVAL OF THE TELEGRAM. gathered about the dining-table. And in the evening came Jackand Gertrude. Jack could not sit still, but jumped out when he JACK COMES ON FOOT. 7 came near, and raced across the fields to the house, beating byseveral minutes the rumbling old stage that brought them. And…
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