Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 259
rushed together. For one brief, glorious moment they remainedthere, lapping the air with their fierce, hot tongues;then, suddenly dropping, they died quickly out;and where an instant before had been a. wall offire was nothing now but a cloud of blue smokerising from the blackened ground, and here… … LINDV FIGHTS THE PRAIRIE FIRE. heard. It was a trying moment. The increasedroar of the advancing fire warned Lindy that shehad but very little time in which to complete thecircle around house and barn; still, if she hurriedher work too much, she would lose control ofthe fire she had started, and…
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