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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 25

An illustration from The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk, 1894, leaf 25 — - 8 THE LAND OF PLUCK tion. Sometimes they stand clustered together; some-times alone, like silent sentinels ; sometimes in long rows,like ranks of soldiers. You see them rising from themidst of factory buildings, by the cottages, on the polders(the polders are lakes pumped dry and turned into… … ALONG THE CANAL. be Holland without its windmills, any more than it wouldbe Holland without its dikes and its Dutchmen. A certain zealous dame is said to have once attemptedto sweep the ocean away with a broom. The Dutch havebeen wiser than she. They are a slow and deliberate people.Desperation may…

Children's stories, American

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