Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 170
hook-and-ladder company before he was five,and would not play with girls at all, he had onepeculiar feminine weakness. His grand pas-sion was washing and ironing. And AnnHughes used to let him do all the laundry-work connected with the wash-rags and hisown pocket-handkerchiefs, into which,… … good morning, boys! never knew anything about this—unless AnnHughes gave it away! The Boy seems to have developed, veryearly in life, a fondness for new clothes — afondness which his wife sometimes thinks he hasquite outgrown. It is recorded that almosthis first plainly spoken words were Coat…
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