Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 457
andvisited me and gave me this. As he finished talking he showed the child gazingon him with wide-open eyes a cross of the Legion ofHonor. Oh, I have one also! the child said, but it isput away where I cannot touch it! As these toys will be, muttered the old soldier. Oh, no! I will hide them in the… … MAYT1ME RUTH HELEN BKIERLEY, AGE 14. (GOLD BADGE.) A DREAM OF THE SEA. BY ELSA CLARK (AGE 8).{Silver Badge.) The wavelets play upon the shore,And little foamy fountains frisk,Because to-day the breeze is brisk. They say I wish, and oer and oer. But what they wish they never say; It cannot always be…
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