Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 38
coils of rope, its pile of lumber,and its mascot kitten, curled up there by theash-box in a workmans coat. They say thebridge has to wait when that kitten wants herdinner, and woe to the man who would treatthe little thing unkindly. This traveler, with -its gangs, is a sortof gigantic… … THE KITTEN MASCOT. Five or six tons is the weight of ordinary pieceshandled by the traveler, but some pieces 596 CAREERS OF DANGER AND DARING. [May, weigh twenty tons, and, on a pinch, forty tons what our friend down the way meant by skip-could be managed, which is the weight of six ping along…
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