Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 83
k in the floorso that it could not be found. This awful calamity had made the miser as cross as twosticks and sourer than last years cider. Whenhe saw the stranger seated before his house herushed out of doors in a great rage. You lazy good-for-nothing! he cried, getup and begone! How dare you sit… … HOW DARE YOU SIT DOWN IN MY BEAUTIFUL SHADOW ? money ? Well, if the house were not hereneither would the shade be; therefore the shadealso cost money, did nt it ? Off with you,vagabond, and never let me catch you abouthere again, using my costly shadow! Certainly you are the meanest man…
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