Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 404
a lily. The tuberoseis not a rose at all. The strawberry and the black-berry are not berries. German silver came not fromGermany, any more than did the Turkish bath fromTurkey. French calf and Russian leather areboth American. There is no wax in sealing-wax,and not a bit of bone in all the… … A LIVING ISLAND itself and makes for the water; but occasionally, for some reason, themud clings and with it the plant growth, so that when the half-awak-ened creature slides into the water and floats stupidly off, it lookslike a floating island. In one such instance, a plover was so deceived as to…
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