Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 324
here, digging a foot-hold there with a knife,stepping across great gapstheir legs could barely span,climbing on hands and knees,brushing snow away from somesharp, cold rock, gripping it fiercelyand drawing themselves up on itwith terrible effort. Thus theyclimbed and climbed, and many a time… … REDDYEDGE hindrance; but they were necessary. At theplace where they had begun the climb, Reddyhad left a man, another was stationed half-wayto the redans, and behind one of the redanswas waiting a third. This was to be the tele-graph-line ; and when, after an agony of climb-ing, Reddy found…
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