Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 263
the cook; butthe sun was out again, the thin layer of snowhad melted, and she retired to the kitchen intears. And there Pietro found her when hereturned, flushed and magnanimous. Bettina unbent enough to reproach him andcomplain. I would have made a little man out of thesnow — thats what I did… … LITTLE WAX PUNCHINELLO BEGAN TO APPEAK. to divert the conversation. There is a big lumpof wax somewhere, he said, and I think Ican get it. Then you can make a little manthat will keep — oh, till the next snow-storm. He turned and went off, and in a few minutescame back with the wax. He softened it…
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