Dick Boldhero : or, A tale of adventures in South America (1845)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · Philadelphia : Sorin and Ball · leaf 33
es are longer, nar-rower, and highly varnished. These trees,or rather shrubs, are evergreens, and pro-duce fruit when they are about four yearsold. They live to a great age—sometimesa hundred years. They were now coveredwith large bunches of white blossoms, whichgave forth a sweet odor. The… … when I met the black-eyed daughter of theplanter. She bade me good morning, inEngHsh, and, to my joy and surprise, I foundthat she knew a few words of that language.We tried to enter into conversation, butwithout much success. She asked me myname; and when I told her it was DickBoldhero, she…
Children's stories, American
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