Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 268
les, and lots ofem—anybodyknows dat. Cant a man walk miles ? Yassir, he kin. As many as a railroad ? Yassir, if you give him time.Cant a flea? 1894] TOM SAWYER ABROAD. 255 Well,— I spose so — ef you gives him heaps finger on him. Now thats a common, ordi- of time. nary, third-class fleas gait; but… … THAT FLEA WOULD BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND YOU COULD NT PREVENT IT. (SEE PAGE 256.) time it takes to go the distance in that counts,aint it? Well, hit do look sorter so, but I would nta blieved it, Mars Tom. Its a matter of proportion, thats what it is;and when you come to gauge a…
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