Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 674
thethree boys saw the white floor of mist roll frombeneath them and a great map open outto view. For a space the shadow ofthe clouds continued to obscure thelandscape, then it too swept on, and agreat checker-board of green and yel-low, barred with lanes of white, lay-spread out before them. Here… … I suppose that is a river, said Dick, in anawed tone, pointing where, as the sun struck it.a flattened glassy rib-bon wriggled across thelandscape, every twistand turn sharply de-fined. Lincolns ejaculationwascharacteristic. Gen-tlemen, he observed, inthe manner of a bus lec-turer, here we havethe…
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