Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 91
andin his studies, as hehad been to beat hisold schoolmates inrunning, swimming, orskating. All wenton well and ^^^^^smoothly for i several months, butone day an accidenthappened, wherebyhe was stretched on ahospital bed, maimedand crippled. Instead of thegrand life Rab hadplanned, which was to be… … AS A CADET. any real service, and partly because of his owncarelessness. In trying to fix a new fuse to an old torpedo-shell as an experiment, the charge exploded,and a fragment of iron injured his right knee. The surgeons were kind and skillful but theygave him no hope of his ever being able to…
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