Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 415
wooden contrivance Two shots in quick succession were to mean a at his feet. Its runners were all rusty, and he false start, and a return for a re-trial. Inspec- had hired a small boy to tote it up the hill for tors were placed at each of the starting-points, him. He paid the boy with a knife,—… … the gale threatened every moment to take the mast right out ok her. (SEE PAGE 404.) Quite invisible from the starting-point was His-tory, with fifty yards to his advantage. Hissled was a high, rickety affair with wickerworkrunners. The regulations of the course could be sum-marized something like…
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