Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 575
could useso seldom now, since his mothers death, andsince he had started to go to school. It was atschool that they had given him his name, halfin fun, half in contempt. His real name wasEric Gustavus Kalmar, but no one except hisfather and the schoolmaster paid any attentionto that. The… … fffiBll timidity. Swedie had as bravea heart as any of the other littleYukon boys, but because they mis-judged him he scorned to show themotherwise, and because he could onlyspeak their language in a halting, ner-vous way he kept much to himself.If he had been at home in Norwaywith his own little…
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