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 86
if women never did brave things! Women do just asmany, I believe, only they dont talk of them. But, for achange, I would like to hear one in which a woman was theheroine. My great-grandmother — began Jack. But he got no farther than the word great-grandmother; for, at that, every one broke out… … NIGHT PATROL BURNING THE RED LIGHT. JACK TELLS THE STORY OF HIS GREAT-GRANDMOTHER. 89 subject had come to be regarded as a great joke. Carrie hadeven suggested that her name was Harris, and had openly statedthat she didnt believe there was no sich a person. Jack flushed at the laughter, and looked…
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