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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 40

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nd girls shuddered. The boys knew whatwas sailing through the air; but the girls reallythought one of us had fallen out. How grandlyour man went down ! What a magnificent crash hemade as he struck the gravel of a walk below andspread out his finely-shaped limbs in the most life-like or lifeless… … HOW GRANDLY OUR MAN WENT DOWN ! duct, our claim that we were only experimentingon the law of gravity, though upsetting the mas-ters gravity, not doing much toward alleviatingour punishment. One girl had fainted away duringthe scene. She thought it was Joe, she said, andshe liked Joe ever so much.…

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