Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 711
evil day, gasped the speckledsinner, when I poked my nose out of water todare a saucy kingfisher, who was mocking thewhole fish tribe in his usual dashing manner.Catch me, if you can ! I cried, darting about atmy ease. But the bird beguiled me. He made me believethat, if I would only work a little… … 00-HOO-H00 ! I enticed all the trout that I could influence toassist me, and we wriggled and wriggled our nosesinto the gravel for a long time, apparently to nopurpose. But, at last, a little leak started, and our waterdripped away, drop by drop; but not in sufficientvolume to carry us with it.…
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