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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 508

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.Hold tight!—Run up the ladders!—Dontjump!—a confused babel. One moment theywould be shut out from his view by the chokingsmoke; the next he could see them, a hundredhands trying to raise the ladders, and it came tohim with a sickening despair that they wereacross the street with two trolley wires… … But there was nobody to cut the wires. Theladder was up almost to his level, wabbling andswaying in the wind, but it was. thirty feet away.When he could see again, the men were tryingdesperately to lower it but the machinery wouldnot work. Ar^ so through moments of suffocation andpain, he watched…

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