Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 489
That is justlike Rich Peter! He must always be saving andstingy, and here he has built the bricks of hiswall so as to leave only this narrow gate. Nowwe must send for the carpenter to come with hissaw and cut off the two ends of the bean-poles. No, that would never do, said the farm-hand, 904 THE… … Ha, ha. ha! said he; did ever a body see any-thing so comical ? And did ever a body see peo-ple so stupid ! Oh me, oh my! such stupidity Inever saw before! H tlie load of poles is sowide it wont go through the gate, why dont theytear down the bricks on one side of the gate andmake the opening wider…
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