Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 371
up attempting to pick a footing,and allowed themselves to slide. Still lower down, the mountain-slopes weresprinkled with tiny hamlets, in which it was notdifficult to recognize the originals of thoseGerman viilages-in-boxes dear to children ofall nationalities. Here were the red roofs,… … Sitting at little tables out of doors were seenthe peasants taking their evening ease overa jug of beer, the good wives knitting in thedoorways, and all bestowing a friendly greetingupon the passers-by. No less attractive of aspect was the thrivingtown itself, the chief center of Toyland, forwhich…
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