Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 176
and in an instant the baby and rider werefar down the field, lost in a cloud of dust. An orderly was sent after the troop with com-mand to bring back the hero of the charge. And there, with the baby on hjs saddle-bow,fearlessly holding in her tiny hands the reinsof the panting steed, the brave… … THREE IFS If I were as young as I used to be,Said dear old Grandmother pensively,While a troubled frown crossed her placid brow, I would nt tire as I do now.I recall the time when with all my mightI could work from dawn to candle light,And it would nt seem hard at all to meIf I were as young as I…
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