Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 454
rge rabbits home to your parents. Butshe was deceiving them. She had a big basket upon her back, andstooping for the boys to get into it, she carriedthem farther and farther into the woods. Atlast they came to an old, battered house; andsetting the basket down, she said: Now we have come all the… … The boys were much afraid, and said theywould stay and be contented. But the oldwoman went into the house and told her hus-band—who was as wicked as she — to get woodand build a big fire in the homo [outdoor bake-oven, made of clay, and shaped like a beehive].All day long the fire burned, and the…
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