Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 304
I have no taste for bicycles, the boyReplied. That thing is but an idle toy.My genius is for horses, and I longTo try my hand at yours. They re not so strongBut I can hold them. I know all their tricks.Father, you swore it by the River Styx,—You know you did,— and you are in a fix.You cant retract.…
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