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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 229

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e hadwings on her feet. Mother! Mother! she kept shouting everystep of the way. Mrs. Todd straightened her tired back abovethe ironing-board as the impetuous figure burstinto the kitchen. Look what I ve found, Mother ! cried Betty,breathlessly. In one of Grandfathers old books.It s money! Heaps and… … Count it, Mother, quick! Will there be enoughto pay what we owe? But Mrs. Todd was not thinking about themoney; she was examining the papers with grow-ing excitement. Why, these are bonds! she cried, for thou-sands and thousands of dollars ! And they vebeen there all this time and we never knew!Oh,…

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