Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 246
If a finger s not a thumb. A SNAIL RACE. I M told that a foolish Frenchman, as a new-amusement for his idleness, has invented the sportof snail-racing. The course is a long, smoothboard, at the end of which is a lighted candle.When the room is darkened the snails naturallybegin to creep along the… … CAUGHT BY A LOBSTER. I LIKE a laugh, and especially a young laugh,meaning the laughter of little folk. It is onewith the blue sky, and the brook, and the cloversnodding, and the joyful life of birds— but some-times the children in my meadow laugh so heartilythat, apart from liking the music of it,…
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