Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 23
know but what I d go myself. Its pretty hardpickings here. Farmer Stevens had a roving dis-position, which he had not quite outgrown. But, remonstrated the mother, they haventmoney enough to give them a good outfit. Itwould be a frightful thing to let those thoughtlessboys go out on the great… … DEPARTURE OF THE GOLD-HUNTERS. should go, there was great excitement in theStevens house. It really seemed as if the boyswere going to California. They had insensiblyglided into the whole arrangement without takingany family vote on it. Neither father nor motherhad once consented or refused that…
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