Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 47
d when it would beopened to view. Such was his impatience that hewas the first to make a discovery. The point ofthe pick, after turning up the soft soil almost noise-lessly for some anxious minutes, at last struck jar, but on trying to raise it they found it wascracked in several pieces, and that… … IN THE BAYOU. something hard with a most decided click. Thenext stroke the sound was repeated and at the sametime a bit of red pottery was thrown up. The doc-tor, perspiring with excitement, flung aside thepick-axe and, falling on his knees, began to drawout the earth with his hands, while everyone…
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