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The Catskill fairies (1876)

Johnson, Virginia W. (Virginia Wales), 1849-1916 · New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers · leaf 36

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n partnership with his son Biorn. Now we shall hear! Biorn, who was a sort of salt-waterpedler, had agreed to meet his father at a certain spot, butmissed him on the open ocean. Lo! a terrible gale arose,driving Biorns vessel like a feather before the wind. Thelittle craft bounded lightly over the… … v.. ly wooded. It was a northern capeof the Gulf of St. Lawrence. What do you suppose this stupid 32 The Cat skill Fairies. Biorn did? He just drifted around the promontory, lookedat it, and, without setting foot on the shore, spread his sailsbefore a fresh west wind, the storm having abated, and…

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