Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 744
ed Tug out when the men draggedthe sand-bags from his legs. Tug could not walkfor a time, and crawled off on the levee to watcha score of men work desperately by the lanternslight to fill the gap. It was half an hour beforethe levee boss could find time to come to Tug. Hesat wearily down. Tug, this… … One afternoon at sundown, about a hundredyears ago, a slightly built boy in blue nankeen—not half so blue as his own eyes—might havebeen seen driving his mothers cow from pasture,along the streets of Boston. He was eating abig, juicy pear. When the cow came to the oldwooden parsonage, at the corner…
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