Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 156
tinging cutsacross our faces. A dim haziness spreading over the sky nowattracted our attention, and I felt a suddensinking of the heart as I remembered that thiswas the season when the great prairie-firesare common. In such a place as that a firemeant certain death. The haze assumed areddish tinge,… … WE DASHED THROUGH THE LINE OF FLAME. (See page 144.) 144 IN A RING OF FIRE. [Dec. far as the eye could see, dense columns ofsmoke showed the presence of the fire, in alldirections. We whipped up the horses and drove towardthe upland, thinking thus to escape the greatestdanger. We reached the high…
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