Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 344
itriebird to a neighboring hillside,where Arco, a shepherd-boy,was lying under the wide-spreading branches of anold oak-tree, playing ona sweet-toned pipe madeof a hollow reed. The shepherd-boystask was to watch a flock of sheep and lambswhile they were grazing on the open pasture-lands during the… … bring him a basket of food and a jug of milkfor the day; and a spring of sparkling waterbubbled out from under the rocks near hishut. For company he had his gentle flock, a fineshepherd-dog, and his musical pipe, and almostevery day he met and had a friendly chat withJoan, a rosy-cheeked lassie, as…
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