Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 409
A girl of about four-teen years (the age and size are not of much con-sequence) held her arms above her head, as shownin the diagram ; a scant white cotton skirt, on theunder side of which a great face had been thatmorning painted, was pinned about her waist, andthe bottom of it then raised over… … DIAGRAM OF DUTCH DWARF. then buttoned about her, making her waistserve in place of a neck. A large bow was needeto conceal the gap caused by the fact of the wai<being larger than an ordinary throat. This Dutch dwarf, like Baron Pompalino, wasbrilliant dancer, though certainly a little stiff in…
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