Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 256
e)! — Let mc begYou 11 look at a horses hinder leg,—First great angle above the hoof,—That s the gambrel: hence gambrel-roof. It had been the headquarters of the Americanarmy during the siege of Boston, and when OliverWendell was born it was the parsonage of hisfather, who was pastor of the First… … This was one of the dreams that I nursed andnever told. Let me make a clean breast of it now,and say, that so late as to have outgrown child-hood, perhaps to have got far on to manhood,when the roar of the cannon has struck suddenlyon my ear, I have started with a thrill of vagueexpectation and…
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