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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 17

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o, too — or so it would seem;for every evening, after sunset, when she runs aboutthe house bareheaded, she plays she is a horseherself. And not satisfied with being a horse, sheplays she is a rider, too. Such a complex idealas that surely never came into the brain of acayuse, for all his big eyes… … POLLY S DREAM-HORSE. will call, and if his troop do not answer, he willcondescend to go a little way to meet them, halt-ing and inquiring with short whinnies what theyare about. Sometimes, in spite of discipline, theywill compel him to go all the way to meet them ;for even a horse soon tires of…

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