Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 395
JED. air became cleared of smoke, so that for the firsttime in many days the sun shone brightly. Jed pondered to himself the reason for this,as he jumped up and ran down the windingsteps in the bank to pull the boat higher up onthe sand. For days the water had been sosmooth and glassy that he had… … suddenly the arms of the little windmill turned toward the lake. self the trouble of dragging it back and forth inthe heat. No storm-clouds were gathering, no squallwas threatening — there was not that excusefor the breeze which had sprung up so sud-denly. All at once a paragraph from the…
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