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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 541

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ur which grew louder as he listened. In a few*moments it was a sullen roar, bornof rushing waters and crashing ice, tons of it,hurled down from the upper river to pile againstthe jam at the bridge. The jam held, and witha rush the water sought a new channel, andspread out over the southern end of… … hello, father! we re ail right! it great cakes of ice. He heard them bumpand jar clumsily against the houses, piling overone another at the first obstruction or spinning ahead with the violence of the current.Then came the swish and slap of wateragainst their ownsteps, and bump!bump! as a heavyice…

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