The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk (1894)
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Century Co. · leaf 31
A WATER OMNIBUS, 14 THE LAND OF PLUCK with peat; pleasure-boats with their showy sails; thelittle skiffs, the rafts, the chip boats launched by white-haired urchins kneeling in the mud. … OVER THE CHIMNEYS AND HOUSE-TOPS (AMSTERDAM). Then, mingling confusedly with masts, and windmills,and sails are the long rows of willows, firs, beeches, orelms, planted on the highways wherever root-hold can befound or manufactured ; the stiff, symmetrical gardens,with their nodding tulips and…
Children's stories, American
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