Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 212
the torture i884.] CHRISTMAS IN THE PINK BOARDING-HOUSE. 197 of moving it was more dreadful each time she Elsie shrieked with the pain : Oh, sir ! my leg! tried. Elsie shut her eyes, and thought to her- Dont. My leg s broken. I cant stand up. self, Now, I will just say my prayers, and then As soon… … MF IT SNOWS HARD, I SHALL LOSE MY WAY, SURE ENOUGH, THOUGHT ELSIE, AND SHE HURRIED ON FASTER AND FASTER. did not cry hard; in fact, she did not in any waysuffer so much as you would have supposed. Shewas already benumbed by cold. To be frozen todeath is not so terrible a death as the words…
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