Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 307
Baby him. He felt as strong, and light, and fresh,as if his veins had run champagne; and gave, hedid not know why, three skips out of the water,a yard high, and head over heels, just as the salmondo when they first touch the noble, rich salt water,which, as some wise men tell us, is the mother… … mullet, leaping and rushing in after the shrimps,but he never heeded them, or they him; and oncehe passed a great, black, shining seal, who wascoming in after the mullet. The seal put his headand shoulders out of water, and stared at him,looking exactly like a fat old greasy negro with agray pate.…
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