Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 742
ran back to the topping bags. The waterwas boiling down among them now; the smear ofyellow dirt was widening over the grass, and heheard the stream running into the roadside ditch.He bent down and dragged at one of the sacks.It was heavy beyond his strength, but he tum-bled it into the breach. Then… … HOLD HER OUT! HOLD HER OUT! SHOUTED TUG. (see pageVol. XL.—63-64. 497 498 ON THE FLOOD CREST ■Magnolias green port light almost abreast ofhim now. There she was, swinging seventyyards off in the flood to pull out of the bend, thehoarse exhaust of her stacks showing the strug-gle she was making to…
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