Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 136
e came apple-trees at last. So, enough is left at every har-vest to increase and multiply itself for the next year.It clings, clings, clings, like drowning men to wreckstuff, so that sometimes, in tearing it away, thebranch to which it has fastened itself is riven fromthe tree. Some of the masses… … A VISIT TO THE MISTLETOE-GATHERERS. into the region of wayside washer-women, answeredfor her, The champion button-smasher. Down in the orchard a large company of peasantswere busy at work. The men threw off their sabotsand climbed the gnarled apple-trees, where theycould cut off the mistletoe with…
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