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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 127

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relief to an over-taxed tongue! In fact, the result is oftenwonderful; as, for instance— But Tom had made a sudden dive towardthe open door, and before Bess could with-draw to the seclusion of her room, he hadwedged his one hundred and forty pounds ofsolid avoirdupois inside, and stood… … till after supper, she went on entreatingly, superfluous flow of speech, as Tom was un- and then I solemnly promise to make a ceremoniously backed into the corner by the steady pushof two lit-tle hands. Tom-mHammond,you — youwretch !cried his sis-ter, bump-ing his headdelicatelyagainst thewall.…

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