Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 102
many lives during those longyears may have depended on his faithful doingof his duty, day by day! Does he have any-thing to read ? Yes, he shows me a box ofbooks, twenty-five or so, and says twice a yearhe gets a change, when the Government steamerbrings a box and takes away the old one, to besent… … CHANGING THE LAMP AT MIDNIGHT. the lantern, one more time in the twenty-nineyears of work. How many more like him thereare at this moment, tending their lanterns allalong the coast from Maine to Florida, eacha plain man, unknown to fame, just doing hisduty in a quiet, monotonous existence ! But…
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