Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 17
aving arms of the two windmills, and an occa-sional sight of one of the millers men, all dustywhite, setting the sails in the direction of thewind, there was little stirring in the village. With the first beams of the sun, the thriftypeasants betake them to the fields; and theywork their small… … midst of which came a prodigious cackling ofgeese, and the shrill voices of children. Onthey came, the geese screaming, running, wad-dling, and flying ahead of the children, who,arm in arm and stretched across the dijke,drove them before, with a great stamp-ing of their wooden shoes. As they passed…
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