Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 520
se he happened to be poor, he was ready togo out of his wits outright. Just then he happened to look down into theplain (for the village stood on the slope of a hill),and behold ! there were ever so many lights twin-kling all over it, as if a regiment were encampedthere; and Stepka thought that… … STEPKA CARRIES THE EIRE upon me than my own neighbors have been. I 11try, at any rate ! And off he set, down the hill, right toward theencampment. The nearer he came to it, the brighter thefires seemed to burn; and the sight of the cheerylight, and all the people coming and going aroundit, all so…
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