Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 225
ropes of fragrant evergreen. roared at the poorest jokes; we were in atouch-and-go state of good humor from morn-ing till night. Indeed, we look back uponthose days as the merriest of our lives. Our first customer! The words send a thrillthrough me even now. We fought so for thehonor of first… … OlR FIRST CUSTOMER. antly mounted guard alone. The bell tinkled IA child came in ! We three in exile pressedour faces to the curtained glass door, and breath-lessly watched the proceedings. Child pointedto a tin horse; Lil handed it to him; childAt the back, opening out of the store, was nodded;…
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