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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 139

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preciouslittle while it was most too moderate. We wasclose down, now, and just blistering! We settled down to within thirty foot of theland,— that is, it was land if sand is land; forthis was nt anything but pure sand. Tom andme dumb down the ladder and took a run tostretch our legs, and it felt… … RUN FO YO LIFE ! rocks, nor towns, and Tom and Jim had took itfor the sea. They took it for the sea in a deadcam; but we was so high up, anyway, that if ithad been the sea and rough, it would a lookedsmooth, all the same, in the night, that way.We was all in a powerful excitement now, dancing, and…

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