Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 84
a ticklishjob! Not satisfied withhaving strangled nearly alltheir fellows, the earth ofthis place where the luck-less mites had been sownclung to them cruelly whenhe sought to free them, asif it would tear and rendthem asunder. Great clodsof it dragged at the babyrootlets even after each plant was…
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