Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 345
oats, loaded downwith the long and heavy passenger-cars. The excursion-boat gives one toot, and therailroad-boat replies with two.Can you translate these signals ?There is another grand annual toot which takes place atmidnight — auniversal toot,not in thecode, but yeta very merryone. Big and… … mother tiptons boat towed by a team of geese. (see page 334.) It s odd how some people take to geese.As a boy I never could understand, for the lifeof me, how one could ever have any love of agoose in him. When I came out in the gloryof my first trousers a whole flock of geesecame after me,…
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