Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 410
hat and a lantern,he said; and Tom waited on the door-step. A few minutes later they were standing on arude pier at the lake-edge, and Tom was look-ing askance at a flat-bottomed, blunt-endedaffair called by courtesy a skiff. In his imagin- ings he had pictured himself skimming acrossthe lake in a… … the big engine came to a stand just opposite the embers of the fire. clumsy home-made sweeps with leather loops,was quite another matter. Yet he would notreconsider, though the hospitable farmer urgedhim again. No; I m much obliged, and you re verykind, but I 11 try it, he said stoutly, payingthe…
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