Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 409
ily is the pleas-antest possible break in their monotonousduties. We started out on a bright August morn-ing, and we instructed our boatman to re-turn within two hours. Win and I walkedup the bronze ladder which you will see inthe pictures, but his mother was drawn up inthe chair. I had often… … AN EVEIi-WATCHFUL SENTINEL. here was a metal ladder running almost per-pendicularly out of the water, and, as the tidewas low, a misstep would have meant, notmerely a disagreeable wetting with a prospectof being safely fished out of the water, but afall on the hard rocks below, with scarcely…
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