Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 125
under the blow this parting made. The old mother pressed a handkerchief to her tear-dimmed eyes, and the father, with a sorrowful face,helped her into the old-fashioned carriage that had takenthem to the station. All the way home there was silence, broken only byan occasional sob from the grieving… … a HEADING FOK MAV. BY LOIS WILDE, AGE I5. (GOLD BADGE.SILVER BADGE WON SEPIEMBER, 1917.) to the house, he found his wife in their spacious bed-room, bending over a picture of their boy. Come, Mother, said the old man, we have gi\enour boy. He is all we have and he is given freely tohis country. It…
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