Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 113
nt Rebekahof having dark designs upon that sum for thepurchase of his straw hat. Even his poultry business, upon which hecould generally depend, had proved unprofit-able this season ; his sitting hens all rose up (as Ann Kenny, the Irish washerwoman, said), a 587 588 BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR TOFFY.… … HIS FATHER HAD TALKED TO HIM EARNESTLY. ness man was not overthrown by these reverses,nor by the elusiveness of the cranberry meadow.He could see no advantage in grinding overLatin declensions, and when Tudy exhorted himto work his way through college as a preliminaryto being President,— to be a…
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