Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 795
f thefirst mile. As he trudged along, steering thewrong-headed burro, which behaved like a rud-derless skiff in a big wind, the boy busied him-self weaving stories, as he had done so often,about the unknown prospector whose bleached over as only one of many stories of the same kindthat had come out… … -jr^f<^c--^-^i —- J AT LENGTH THE OBJECT CEASED TO MOVE, AND JIMMY DREW NE.\R, bones lay under the heap of rock surrounded byfour dusty sage-bushes. Perhaps he had found a mine and was tryingto get out of the desert with the news of histreasure when he lost his way and ran out ofwater. Or maybe…
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