Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 172
treat it upon hisanvil—battering the hilt, taking a bit of metalfrom the guard, and putting nicks into the edge, 1901.] THE BOY AND THE BARON. 117 only to beat and grind them very carefully outagain. He took a bottle of acid from a shelfand spilled a few drops where blade met hilt,wiping it off… … PUTTING HIS HORN TO HIS LIPS, HE BLEW FOUR GREAT BLASTS. (SEE PAGE 115.) stained and roughened the steel. This rough- I d like well to save it for ye, youngster, ness he afterward smoothed away, and worked he said; but t is a fair risk as it stands. at the sword until he had it looking like a badly…
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