Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 197
d usually liked towatch the boats that came and went, and thefunny two-storied street-cars, and the soldiersthat sometimes marched there. But to-day he wasnot interested in any of these sights. There wasjust one thing in the world that he wanted, andthat was his mother ! As he walked along blinking… … THE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT IS THE KIVER-FEONT ALONG THE THAMES. and it belonged to an old man who was drawingwonderful pictures in colored chalk on the pave-ment. So sorry, sir, said the old man, hunchinghimself back against the wall, quite as if he wereused to apologizing for being stepped on.…
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