Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 654
. For betraying mans kindness tocover your shame, a curse shall be upon youand all your kind until the end of the world.Whenever men stroke you in kindness, remem-brance of your guilt shall make you hump upyour back with shame, as you did to avoidbeing found out; and in order that the reasonfor… … HE RETIRED TO A HOME FOR AGED AND REPUTABLE CATS.1 With that the Genius vanished in a cloud ofsmoke. And it was even as he said. From that day-Sooty Will could never abide having his backstroked without humping it up to conceal themill within him ; and never did he hump up hisback but the…
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