Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 453
er when the first riseof the creek in spring carries it out. 44o NOVEMBER IN THE CANON. [April, The Chinese wood-drivers are singular, wild-looking beings. Often at twilight, when theycamped on the shore below the house, the chil-dren would hover within sight of the curiousgroup the men made around… … CHARLEY MOV S ESTABLISHMENT. economical bit of fire, sufficient merely to cookthe supper of fish and rice. All is silence before supper, in a camp ofhungry, wet white men; but the Chinamenwere always chattering. The children wereamused to see them doing their hair likewomen — combing out the long,…
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