Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 140
t, he heard a small voice crying out indoleful accents: Oh ! if I could but get it up ! Oh !if I could but get it over the top ofthe hill! Then it would go of itself. Curious to know whence this voicecame, he stepped forward a few paces,when he descried a dwarf, not tallerthan a mans knee, trying… … THE POOR LABORER BEGS AID OF THE RICH COUSIN. 128 THE PUMPKIN DWARF. [Dec. rolling back two inches. Again and again hehad failed, and now was well-nigh exhausted. Seeing his plight, the laborer took pity onhim, and, springing forward in the nick oftime, by a vigorous push he sent it over thecrest.…
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