Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 245
be if there were no sun :darkness all the time ; no cheery flowers, because if thesun should stop shining, flowers could not grow; andno trees or plants of any kind, for the same reason. No animals could live, because it is on plants animalslive ; and, last, no people, because if animals and… … GOOD FRIENDS. BY DOROTHY CALKINS, AGE 14. (SILVER BADGE.) enough ; just suppose it should. Would it not be sur-prised when it started to shine again? No people,plants, trees, or animals of any kind; all would haveperished because it had ceased to shine. Yet, perhaps some people have never thought…
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