Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 51
brought the feather bed to the floor.Then I dragged it to the book-case. The nextthing was to fetch a ladder from the garret—noeasy job for a ten-year-old. This done, it was evi-dent I should need some sort of a stick for poking ner of the boy and flag in Excelsior and hastilyadjusting the ladder,… … the vase with. Fathers umbrella with its crookedhandle was just the thing. Good ! said I to myself. Wont it be larksto knock down the vase and never hurt it a bit!Good for you, too. Old Mr. Feather-Bed! Allyouve got to do is to catch it. With this, seizing the umbrella after the man- went right up…
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