Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 78
ad broad wooden plat-forms across their backs, with narrow strips ofboard hung by strings on each side, fallingabout eighteen inches below the platform.Over all this a rug was thrown, and on it threeor four people were to sit in a row on eachside, resting their feet on the hanging strips. This… … A STREET IN JEYPORE. ing short ladders, we seated ourselves as wellas we could, and awaited, with curiosity andtrepidation, the crucial moment when the ele-phant should tip us from one side to the otheragain and again, and, after seeming to stand onboth ends of himself at the same instant of…
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