Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 23
hen, as shemelted away, we would fallto inventing stories of thewoful wreck, and whisper toeach other, how the men,some of whom we knew,had starved on the raft asthey floated on the waves,until they ate each other,or struggled against theirfate until they perished mis-erably in the waters.… … had sent word by a passing vessel that the TwoBrothers, in which he sailed, would be in port bythe full of the moon. The moon fulled and waned,and waxed and waned again, but the Two Broth-ers never came. Sols mother watched and waited,and waited and watched, on Fish Hawks Crag formany moons and…
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