Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 84
ve said a word ? This thing mustbe stopped ! You see now why I had to skip so much in tell-ing you this story. I could nt possibly catch upwith the picture before you saw it, and the momentyou saw it the story was told ! But no! There s the conclusion ! You know italready, eh? The rat was drowned?… … NOT THE END OF IT VET, BY ANY MEANS. gets out! And when the people come to thattree to gather cocoa-nuts, behold there is a mousein one of the very finest! A FINE STORY SPOILED. ONCE upon a time, a matronly hen and herfine brood of promising chicks were wanderingalong the pebbly shore of a limpid…
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