Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 190
He stood upand waved his arm aloft like an officer leading hissoldiers. I wish for a million dollars! he cried. In asecond the great silver dollars rained down uponhim, as if every leaf in the trees above his headhad been turned into coin. They flew into hisface, striking him with their sharp,… … I WISH FOR A MILLION DOLLARS ! was being banked up in a silver prison, and yetthe air was full of this novel hail-storm. Oh, I shall be smothered, buried alive ! criedpoor, frightened Tinkey, trying vainly to run away,and thrashing out his arms in every direction, as he tried to beat back the…
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