Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 535
wall, I have often amused myself bytouching these irritable pods. No matter howmany times you may have done it, you want totry just once more, and invariably they startleyou, though you may know just what they willdo. They pop so suddenly that no amount ofanticipation will find you prepared for the… … AS INNOCENT AND HARMLESS IN APPEARANCEAS A CARTRIDGE. ment, a touch sends them into a convulsion. Yet,if you take a pair of tweezers or scissors, andhold the stem carefully just behind the pod, youmay cut it off and lay it on a piece of paper or aplate. When you get several in a row, like thethree…
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