Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 234
-ing was seen to open. Two boys had determinedto save it; they had mounted the stairs towhere the bell hung, and then by a ladder hadreached the window. They had taken a boardup with them, and they now pushed one end ofit out of the window and lowered it till it waswithin reach of the cat. Then, by… … accidentally let go his hold, the board turned over,and the cat would certainly have been dashed tothe ground had it trusted to that means of escape.The boys withdrew the board, and soon re-ap-pearing at the window, were seen to be lowering abasket down the side of the steeple. Pussy, havingnow…
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