Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 534
, saying to his mother: I am going tofight for Uncle Sam. Leave my scythe hang-ing there till I come back! That was the last seen of young Johnson.The anxious mother scanned the papers afterevery battle in the hope of finding some men-tion of her son; but the war finally ended,and he did not… … THE SCYTHE TBEE The point of the blade is seen just below thelower branch of the tree in the background. blade. The handle decayed, little by littli-,until it finally disappeared. To-day the treeis fully three feet in diameter. The heel ofthe scythe is deeply imbedded in the centerof the tree, and…
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