Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 192
ing well. The childrennow watched it in dead silence. A half-hour passed. The candle was burningwithin an inch of the quill, and all eyes were bentupon it. If the candle sputtered, the excitementbecame intense. I think it will go off in tenminutes now, said my grandmother. There was a noise in the… … used to appear at the foot of an old womans bed;and some superstitious people declared that theold lady one night, on awaking and finding theghostly Indian present, put out her foot to pushhim away, and pushed her foot directly throughhim. What a brave old lady she must have been,and how…
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