Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 78
orious manner of onewhose limbs were stiff with weariness, in orderto quaff the water with his hollowed hands. Nina ran swiftly to where, in a green, mossycrevice between two boulders, she had stored thefood for her feast; she drew forth a little cupfashioned from red clay, and, di])]iing it into… … 44 THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HELPED [Nov., And here a genial smile, like sunshine, flashedfrom beneath the shaggy gray brows. Of atruth, Ferdinand of Aragon has no more readyand courteous cup-bearer ! As for the water, itis most refreshing—so cold that it almost seemsto have a touch of ice in it. The…
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