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The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk (1894)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Century Co. · leaf 24

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turning slowly,steadily, with a peculiar plenty-of-time air, or is whirlingas if the spirit of seventy Dutchmen had taken posses-sion of it. You scarcelv can stand anvwhere in Holland without *J e/ seeing from one to twenty windmills. Many of them arebuilt in the form of a two-story tower, the… … ONE OF THE WINDMILLS. the wall; and to this are fastened two prodigious arms,formed somewhat like ladders, bearing sreat sheets of can- O O vas, whose business it is to catch the mischief-maker andset him at work. These mills stand like huge giantsguarding the country. Their bodies are generally of…

Children's stories, American

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