Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 330
hedges, when he came face to facewith a mill cart fair across the way. With oneglance he saw that it was not possible to pass: thewheels were well upon the banks on either side;and the thorns and brambles brushed the flanksof the cart. The lane was converted into a ver-itable cul-de-sac. The field… … THIS TIME JERRY ABERSHAW WAS VERY NEARLY CAUGHT. 222 THE REFUGEE [Jan., and there, turned his horses head and gallopedback upon his tracks. Two of his pursuers werealready in the lane. The first of them was oneof the whips; and him he passed like a streak oflight, catching the man a blow across the…
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