Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 387
sick. I looked withlonging after a huge passenger-steamer as shecame somewhere from the southern coast ofIreland, bound back to America. I rang mybell, but too weakly to make her hear, for shekept right on her course. I watched her long-ingly until she disappeared on the horizon. Then along came a… … THEN ALONG CAME A GOVERNMENT CRUISER. >9°3-] THE BELL-BUOY S STORY. 877 slowed up to meet me. It was the business ofher officers, it seems, to look after waifs andrunaways like me, and they certainly did theirduty. Indeed, I afterward learned that theyhad known of my leaving those Florida…
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