Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 356
should a be coming ashore like that, Cap-tain Campbell said, recognizing in a great sparjust flung on the sand the one to which he hadclung till rescued by the life-boat. Then they went home to tell the wonderful storyto Grandmother Campbell and busy Margery. Captain Campbell sailed away on his… … Four little balls in a queer gray pocket,Rolling about as the wind would rock it;For up, up, up, as high as could be,It swung from the branch of a sycamore-tree ! Hard little balls; but ere long they are breaking,—Not from the rolling, and not from the shaking,—Something inside of each ball comes…
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