Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 122
of the open road :There was a Jonnie Ford—a dandy car.Henry, its owner, loved to take a loadEach day into the country near and far. One day the rain was falling fast and thick.Pink, sticky mud blocked all the roads and lanes.Even a Jonnie should have feared he d stick.Not so with this one. (We had… … a heading for may. BV JAMES DEE RICHARDSO.V, AGE I5. (honor member.) What happened next? is what you 11 surely ask.The lot of cranking fell by chance on me.Heroically I waded to the task ;Each step I took the mud closed oer my knee. One solid hour I made that engine buck.Pesky ole motor would nt…
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