Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 259
riceto eat if Fate allowed me to live so long. Myback ached as I planted it tuft by tuft in thelittle field yonder, and I borrowed a neighborsbuffalo to plow the wet furrows. Upon a day,while I was planting, there came one of themonkey-folk out of the forest there at the top of the hill, and he sat… … THE NEXT DAY THERE CAME TWO OF THE MONKEY-PEOPLE,AND I THREW TWO CLOTS OF MID AT THEM. two of the monkey-people, and they sat uponmy boundary-stone, and I threw two clots ofmud at them, and they went to my house toge-ther, dancing upon their hind legs, and theystole all the red peppers that hang…
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