Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 281
ay,Stood a spirited youth, one summer day,And thus he moaned to the moaning sea: Ah, sad is the fate that falls to me ! The cruel waves that around me roar, They bind me down to this petty shore. Oh, were I once on the other side, I d seek the lion, and tame his pride! And after the royal beast was… … OLD JOCK AND HIS SHEEP—A NOONTIDE REST. Chapter V. ON THE LAMPASAS. For weeks and months, affairs at the ranch onthe Lampasas pursued the even tenor of theirway, until, as Bessie declared one morning, itseemed as if they had always lived there ; and sheadded: If only Waldo and Uncle Cyrus werewith…
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