Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 · New York : Clark Austin & co. · leaf 202
196 THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK. A?m. He looks like a real boy ; but I think the horse looks clumsy. Aunt. That is because he is a wooden horse, with jointed legs. You cannot expect him to canter quite as well as a rea: horse. Here is another of the figures, called the Marksman oi … Madrid. With a pistol no bigger than your thumb, he aimed at a little bird, on a post. The pistol went off with real fire and smoke, and the bird fell down dead. Another was a famous Vaulter. He jumped over standards, placed at a height, which might be called immense when com-
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