Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 283
in a book for us to read,admire, and emulate when our turn comes. Grandma looked thoughtfully at the fire as shespoke, and Lotty said, with her eye on the port-folio : Perhaps Aunt Nell will do it for us. Thenhistory wont be so dry, and we can glorify our fore-mothers as well as fathers. I 11 see… … On the 20th day of March, 1775, a little girl wastrudging along a country road with a basket of eggson her arm. She seemed in a great hurry, andlooked anxiously about her as she went; for thosewere stirring times, and Tabitha Tarbell lived in atown that took a famous part in the Revolution.She was…
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