Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 182
er that Miss Sawyer looked very muchas if she had been struck by lightning; the morewonder that the quiet old house did nt shake to itsfoundation, when this proposal was made. Indeed,old Tabby on the hearth-rug did wake up, startled,no doubt, by the consciousness that a childs handmight pull her… … CHRISTMAS CELLS. 164 THE OLD STONE BASIN. [January, THE OLD STONE BASIN.By Susan Coolidge. In the heart of the busy city,In the scorching noon-tide heat, A sound of bubbling waterFalls on the din of the street. It falls in a gray stone basin,And over I he cool wet brink The heads of thirsty horses…
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