Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 71
a heavybeetle. I suppose that very few city boys, andnot all country boys, now, know what a bee-tle is. It is a ponderous wooden mallet,for driving the steel wedges used in splittinglogs. Of course everybody thought it verystrange that he should ha\e brought this insteadof the axe; and Prince… … PKINCE ALMOST G.NAWED THE HANDLE OFF IN HIS EFFORTS TO GET THE AXE. But, alas! even faithful friends grow old, andthe best of servants lose their usefulness. Andto Prince there came a time when age told uponhim. The speed went from his nimble legs;and, I am sorry to say, some of the sweetnesswent…
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