Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 406
trousers ruined Johnny shut one tube exultingly within the other,took the precise measurements of the ends, broughtthe money out of his savings-bank, and, while hewaited till his father should go again to Boston tobuy goods, beguiled the time with conundrums. Pa, why is Saturn the most dishonest of… … AT WORK ON THE TELESCOPE. with blotches of rosin and paint and with cuts fromhis implements, which were sharpened to such anextent that his father expected to see the grind-stoneexplode any day. He had left the bark on the firststick ; but the second one must be made smooth onthe outside as well as…
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