Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
about five milesfrom here by this time. I wish it was five thousand, exclaimed SirWalter, angrily, smoothing down his frock.Old Peckjabber! Why, what in the world is the matter?said Dorothy, beginning to laugh in spite ofherself. Matter! exclaimed the Admiral, with hisvoice trembling with emotion.… … shelf. It is a shelf! she exclaimed, peeping cau-tiously over the edge; and there s the realfloor ever so far away. I can never jump downthere in the world without being dashed to de-struction ! — and she was just thinkinghow it would do to hang from the edgeof the shelf by her hands and thenlet…
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