Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 375
feel as though he were a youngCrusader. He had a mission which, if not sogrand as that which led the mailed knights ofKing Richard and Godfrey of Bouillon into Pal-estine, was equally noble. For hundreds of milesalong the overflowing Mississippi there were mul-titudes perishing from starvation and… … JACK THEN KNOCKED ON THE DOOK. Stay here where you are, he said, address-ing the little girls, while 1 go forward and seewhether any one needs our help. Jack then knocked smartly on the door, thoughthe latch-string was hanging out. Receiving noanswer, he repeated the summons, when, instead by…
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