Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 692
was alive. It zvas! said Betsy, staring, with her teethset deep in an apple. Yes, indeed. It was the first house in thevalley built of sawed lumber. You know, whenour folks came up here, they had to build alltheir houses of logs to begin with. They did. cried Betsy, with her mouth fullof apple.… … BETSY SHUT HER TEETH TOGETHER HARD, AND STARTED ACROSS I did nt know anything about it, said Betsy.Tell me about it. Why you knew, did nt you—your Aunt Har-riet must have told you—about how our folkscame up here from Connecticut in 1763, on horse- back? Connecticut was an old settled place…
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