Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 199
over. Whereverthey may bebom,and what-ever be theirbringing up,thequality of boy-ishness is sure to be in all of them. When thelittle cockney lad in the dark lanes of Londonhears the sound of Bow Bells, he cannot helpsometimes putting himself in the place of Whit-tington, and, by sheer force of… … which he is the hero—one that in unexpect-edness of adventure and in variety of incidentfar surpasses any told by the fair Scheherazadeto the cruel Sultan in the watches of the Thousand and One Nights. So it is no wonder that the boys of Amer-ica delight in being Indians. The conditionof the…
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