Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 75
es, butter-kegs, soap-tubs,and fish-barrels, groping always for the ladderleading up to the light. She strained her eyes,trying to see more plainly. A dozen times thestairs seemed just before her, but still her fingers closed on something else. Big girl as she was — going on eleven — she began to… … IN CAME THE FRISKY COUSINS. peal of laughter and the trampling of feet over-head. The sounds were subdued by the stoutbeams between, but still were so loud that sheknew the kitchen must be just above her. They are all having a good time; they donteven miss me, she thought, angrily. It was abitter,…
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