Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 665
of the neighborhood,—he was only five years old and he had a vividimagination. The festival was by far the greatest event thathis little life had ever looked forward to, and The thought of the evenings pleasure had be-come such a large part of Alessandros little life,that he lay there in his… … when the day finally arrived he could hardly real-ize that it had come. He was in a state of great excitement by sup-per-time, and could eat very little. Long beforethe hour for the arrival of the omnibus, he wasstanding waiting at the door, his mother besidehim, and Juan and Pancho in the midst of…
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