Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 65
paper being ornamented with purple, gold, and redhues. The glass was placed in position, the spec-tator looked through it, the performers were liftedin by the pincers, and the dance began — a mix-ture of the Highland-fling, the sailors hornpipe,and a regular break-down. The little creatures bobbed… … THE HlRDLE-KACE. that had fallen down, and were kept by their volu-minous skirts from getting up, had to be carriedoff by the aid of the ever-ready pincers. Next came a hurdle-race. Hurdles of thin silverwire were arranged, over which two fleas were sup-posed to leap. One, however, was evidently…
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