Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 389
pers rejoinder, after becoming satisfied that no practicable path leads out of the cove,between land and water. This constrains them to pass another night onthe spot that has proved so disastrous, and, themorning after, to eat another meal upon it — thelast they intend tasting there. .A meager… … THE DOCTOR most thirsty when no water can be had ! It is theold story of distant skies looking brightest, andfar-off fields showing greenest; — the very difficultyof obtaining a thing whetting the desire to possessit, as a child craves some toy, that it soon ceasesto care for when once in its…
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