Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484
of a queersunshade that was invented for the benefit of theBritish soldiers in the Soudan. (I dont knowwhere that is, I m sure, and my bird was in toogreat a hurry to explain. But who cares ? I knowI can trust you young geographers to clear up anymystery of that sort.) Well, as to the sunshade, my… … But it would look so queer! I said. Wouldanybody have the courage to wear it?—whenfrom the grass near my pulpit up popped an oldraven, whose specialties are ancient history, scare-crows, and eavesdropping. Dont you know, he croaked, that the manwho first carried an umbrella was ridiculed andhooted…
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