Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 709
nt; but he saw all Dicksardor and devotion. And when they were settled in their beds,while Dicks fancy was at work, up spakeThomas, who had seemed to be sleeping: Iheard thee say, An I were free! What didstmean, Dick? Why,—why—if I were a lone lad, brother. What wouldst do, Dick ? said Thomas… … HOW DAREST JUMP OVEK MY WALL? SHOUTED THOMAS. He said to himself: If Dick were free, hewould not live in a poor, tedious way, and ferrypeople across the river in a leaky old boat. If Thomas, then, could but have had himselfblown out, like the flame of a candle; if he couldhave been wiped out, like…
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