Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 359
row, swiftly rollin g tide, increasingin width at every moment—the current of the riversuddenly set free from its winters bondage, andrapidly dashing away its chains. Roxie turned back, but the crack that she hadstepped over was already far too wide for her toattempt to repass, and a gentle shaking… … THE RESCUE. It would nt do for Roxie to come over herealone again, said Jake, probing the ice-crack withhis stick. And Roxie,—poor little Roxie,—whom Jake wasso glad to think of as safe at home, was at that verymoment stepping over a wide crack between twogreat masses of ice, and staring forlornly…
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