Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 121
unmolested in their strange hab-itation until they had no further use for it. James G. McCurdy. ^BECAUSE WE[WANT TO KNOW WHAT ARE ECHOES Whitesboro, N. Y.Dear St. Nicholas: Please tell me what makes echoes.There are some where I live. Your interested reader, Elisabeth Elting. An echo is a sound… … on the hillside where these people stand, a call, even in an ordinary tone of voice, comes back distinctly from the distant hill. Lack and makes the echo. But the sound doesnot fall to the ground as a ball does, but goes ina straight course. Sound travels about elevenhundred or twelve hundred feet…
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