Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 504
n aminute sooner we would have been run over by thetrain. A little farther up the road Frank, wearied byhis run, broke into a trot, so that my mother managedto bring him to a stop. This story is true. A CLOSE CALL. BY EVERETT SNYDER (AGE 9). One night mama went to church and left the lamp in… … A HEADING. BY MARY DANIEL GORDON, AGE 9. My little sister Charlotte said, I smell something burning, papa. Papa went in the room where the lamp was, and found the curtains scorched in several places. In a minute more it would have been all ablaze. Papa took the lamp away from -^» ■—-—^—™ them. Was…
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