Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 261
rot bed (6 feet by 13 feet)was not as it should have been. Instead of asmooth bed with the faint green lines of newcarrots across it, it now was a relief-map ofsome new and undiscovered continent. Therewere ridges, with the earth broken and heavedup an inch or two; and these mountains inminiature… … THE RESULT OF AN HOUES WORK BY DIG-IN-THE-DAIiK, THE MOLE fensive weapon, the potato-fork is unbeatable.There are two ways to locate his exact where-abouts. As he digs and tunnels and wrigglesthrough the earth, he pursues a course so nearthe surface that the earth heaves momentarilyand betrays him.…
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