Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 21
e are few boys, and, in fact, few grown-up folkswho can pass their cage without stopping to lookin. If the zebra had a long wavy tail like the horse,instead of a jackass tail with a bushy tuft at theend, he might be still handsomer than he is. Butthen no animal can have everything. BY THE SEA.By… … it is true, they have squirrel and rabbit-hunting, thedelights of gunning, the pleasure of going in a-swimming, where the mill-pond and the pebblystreamlets sparkle in the sun or glide under thecool shadows of the willows; but, as a boy, I usedto think that the poor fellows who never knew…
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