Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 190
n of itself, what doesYvette do but change her seat to the bit ofwall near the stunted tree, where she wasshaded from the hot sun only by the few straggly leaves that grew around the threeapple-blossoms! But at least the little treecould imagine what beautiful shade it wasgiving, otherwise why… … SMALL WONDER THAT THE COOK THUEATE.NED TO LEAVE no! Not everybody, for that Ijrings me tothe farmers son. Years ago, so the farm-hands said, he hadbeen such a jolly, rollicking boy, always sing-ing or whistling, so as to set all the birdsabout the place going in competition! Thenone day he had set…
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