Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 313
ahair. A full minute they glared ateach other. Then the Squires bob-tail rose up and broke the spell. Mrs.Feathertail gave a leap, and was afterhim. Around and around the barnshe chased him — up one beam, downanother, over the wood piled up in the bin, underthe divan, across both my legs and, at… … dared to show himself withingunshot of her. He be-came a kind of squirrel-tramp, and foraged aboutthe wood-pile outside, whereJim kept a supply of nutshidden for him. The poor Squire nearlylost his life soon after Mrs.Feathertail got the upperhand of him in that uglyway. The cistern at theback of…
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