Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 201
hecoal-cellar ; that was plain. A burning bit of pinehad been thrown into a pile of chips in one cornerof the room. A merry blaze was eating its waythrough the rubbish. Quick to see and act, Elsie tore an old blanketfrom its nail in the wall. Such a fire could besmothered — she had often heard… … W V DON YE LICK LOO, MAMMY ? and coal, and shuddered. Then the big red barrelin the corner caught her eye. That held the gas-olene for the summer stove ! And on top of thebarrel, in an old tin can — she knew that strangestuff, like grains of coarse black sand ! What if she had not come down-stairs…
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