Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 418
ffeted figures struggle by the win-dow toward the beach-cart. We counted fivemen and the boy—the other keeper had come upwith one recruit. The woman beside me groaned.Six—and one a boy, and one an old man, andtwo no more than tenderfoots! What s that inplace of our eight husky lads? Enough, it… … AND THF, CART MOVED! OH, IT MOVED! INCH BY INCH, AND THEN FOOT BY FOOT. She must be breakin up ! They dare nt taketime to follow the beach or they d never try theshort cut over the dunes, and them short-handedat that! Sure enough, before they were out of sight ofthe station, the party came to a…
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