Bear, Gilly, Gabriel, Gilbert W · New York : Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co. · leaf 106
Peterkin. We gave him shelter for the night, continued the oldman with his writing. But long before the moon was up,he had stolen off to the fields where the brooks were whitein the darkness—up the steeps to where the waterfalls weresplashing into quiet pools with a cheery murmur. Hereached over… … was so easy to fall asleep in those good days, with the mur-mur of the softly playing brooklets in our ears—not at alllike to-day, when night is a black stretch of silent terror.Suddenly, in every household, someone sat up straight 90 THE ADVENTURES OF PETERKIN in bed. In every household, someone…
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