Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 429
winter finds the partridgeready for any amount of snow,—its feathers, too,are then in perfection, — and it is able to runalong the tops of the drifts and to walk, as well,upon the sleet-covered branches of the trees, aidedby the same snowshoes. But when the snows are 4i6 THE DRUMMER ON SKOWSHOES.… … I COULD JUST SEE HIS SHAPELY FORM STRUTTING ABOUT. Benny listened with intense interest, and whenhis Unele Martin had finished speaking, the boycontinued gazing dreamily at a corner of the room,giving full flight to his lively fancy, which carriedhim away in imagination to some wintry swampwhere…
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