Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 55
harbors, where thetendrils seized and wound about his ships of warriding at anchor, and climbed up the masts, whilemelons grew on the decks till the vessels sank tothe bottom ! It choked up and drank up all therivers and lakes in the kingdom, or dammed themup so the waters overflowed the land,… … &c 0 %£&^w<? iV)-. THE MAGIC MELON OVERRUNS THE COUNTRY. he cut a hole through the melon. It took him awhole hour, and when he got into the house hefound that his poor mother had fainted from fright. And all the time the vine and melons kept grow-ing—east, west, north, south. Nimble Jim…
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