Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 462
oot of the platform, they were babies, creep-ing on all fours and crying and cooing. Those babes in uniform were very ridiculous.After a great shout of laughter, some of thewomen in the crowd picked up the helplessinfants and bore them away in their arms. Iafterward learned that the foundling… … THIS is preposterous! said the duck in a rage. (see next page.) in her situation I should have disappeared fromview, or changed myself into a humming-birdor a dragon-fly,— something with wings, youknow,— and soared gently away into the blueether. But she was not satisfied with ordinarymacrical…
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