Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 521
ll like the burning of fifty tar-barrels. Andwhen they turned to abuse the charcoal-burners,the charcoal-burners were gone ; fires, camp andmen had all vanished like a dream ! But as for Stepka, his gold stuck by him, andhe used it well. And always, on the day of hisvisit to the charcoal-burners,… … toy here goes the toy balloonman ! Here, take this ten-centpiece; run after him ashard as ever you can, andbring me one of those over-grown ripe-cherry-lookingthings, and I will showyou a few queer tricks thetoy balloon can do, which,I 11 venture to say, theballoons himself never inventor ofthought…
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