Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 206
r the harvests be destroyed. In this eventthe inhabitants could eat their own houses. Again, each dweUing, each public building,is shored up, as a precaution against its tum-bling down; and this affords work for a classof persons called proppers, whose duty it is Anyhow, was it their duty to alarm… … quite a number of people were doing the supper-mile. (see next page.) to keep the supporting props in good order.The streets and sidewalks are laid with india-rubber, in case any one should fall; the ends ofthe thoroughfares are protected from drafts;and at intervals pillars are set up, with…
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