The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy part 2 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 71
after a certain time search-parties of dogsare sent out to look for them. Here is deep snoweven in August. It is so bitterly cold that we getoff and walk to warm our numbed limbs; andsoon the bare, bleak walls of the worlds loftiesthouse of charity loom through the damp mist.Winter lingers here for… … wilderness of ice and snow. We are here nearlynine thousand feet above the level of the sea, andthe slightest exertion distresses our breathingapparatus, so rarefied is the air. No sooner arewe at the door than a dozen monstrous dogs comebaying forth to greet us. No questions areasked. It is…
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