Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 314
the Gulf, spark-ling in the happy light of day. Warm breezesscented with wild thyme lifted the dark tressesof the mothers hair and fanned the littleones cheek. But Heracleas heart was heavy. The battleof lifehadbeenhardsince Callias left her, twelveweary months ago. Phorion was a wee baby igo6.;… … THE CRANE, PUTTING OUT HIS LONG BILL, DROPPED SOMETHING INTO HER LAP was sitting now, a lazy part of the sleepynoonday world. As she sang to her baby boy a shadow fellacross Heracleas sunny door-way. A tall,handsome man was comingup the little foot-pathwith that leisurely carriage which…
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