Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 313
d while they weretalking about him and looking for him, the tidecame in and floated the tub from the littlesand bank. Now that afternoon a smart lit-tle breeze chanced to be blowing off shore.The wash-tub, with little Eddys weight in it,canted over toward one side, and the oppositeside stood high… … stream, and stood boldly out, heading due eastfor the Old World. Eddys father, as I said before, was a fisher-man. He used to go out very early in the A NEW TALE OF A TUB. 789 morning, with trawls and hand lines, sometimesa long way from home. After setting his trawlshe would spend the day in…
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