Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 199
every moment to keep the door locked, for the boys were just wild to find otthe mystery. Mrs. Stanley had stopped in hedreary round of drudgery—for this home, you muknow, was the temple of work—to ask what all tbfuss was about. But Jeanie told her that her fathfsaid she might use the out-room ; and… … MAY S CHKISTMAS-TREE. not tear herself away from contemplation of twonderful tree. To her it was the embodimenteverything beautiful and enchanting in the worlWith no books but school-books, no pictures,papers, nothing beautiful to be seen in that litgrinding prairie home, she had never even…
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