Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 91
s and feathers. Dont we seethem wdierever there are cats and dogs or birdsor chickens? What is there unusual about suchcommon things that you should ask? Of course,I know hairs and feathers! The idea! I thought that I kncn^ hairs and feathers, too, -^^S:^^^^^:^g22^:S5^r^ Sf/t/rO £M/IKOfU rO ^HOA… … mon things and gave quite a shock to my com-fortable self-conceit. Indeed, is it not owing tothis very so-called commonness that we usuallydisregard them as undeserving of notice? Hairs are found on almost everything thatgrows, and, if we may so call the fine fibers of as-bestos, they even invade…
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