Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 20
IT IS MINE, and teacher had explained to him that the ani-mals dislike and fear of the instrument was nodoubt caused by the effect of the high and rapidvibrations of sound produced by it on their ex-tremely sensitive organs of hearing. morsel for the savage beast. If Ahmed could only reach the… … THE TIGER MOVED BACKWARD A STEP, AS IF ASTONISHED AND TERRIFIED. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) With trembling limbs and chattering teeth,Ahmed skirted the tall, golden stalks of sugar-cane, and with a step almost as noiseless as thetigers own reached the brick wall of the gar-den. As he prepared to mount it, he…
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