Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 681
ewould be nothing to eat or drink, so he had spenthis last penny on food, which he had stowedabout his person as best he could. This, with acan of water, completed his meager outfit. By the time he had found this little cubbyholehe was so worn out with watching and waitingthat he fell asleep almost… … slept. Busy little tugboats came snuggling upagainst the big steamer, like chickens trying toget beneath their mothers wing. They dragged her out into midstream, then her engines beganto throb, and away she sped down the harbor,through the Narrows, past Sandy Hook, until theOld Atlantic took her in…
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