Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 77
s werehelping herself and her children. So, you see, there are all manners of queercarriers and burden-bearers in the world, fromthat fleetest of postmen, the carrier-pigeon,which takes a message through the air forhundreds of miles with the speed of an expresstrain, down to the locomotive, the… … -#c Talbot The little Kangaroo (If this story is quite true)Could not be made to bathe him in the river. He said he never yet Saw water quite so wet —The mere suggestion made him shake and shiver! His mother said, Absurd ! You re a ninny, on my word !What well-bred jungle creature would act so ?…
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