Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 163
eyd stripped a score of clotheslines andhad made a snowy pile of dainty gowns andaprons white, and frocks of every style.Those roaring robbers danced and prancedabout that pile with glee, their horrid yells were bad to hear, their grins were bad tosee. But what was worse, they took thoseclothes,… … and dire; when suddenly they heard a sound,a buzzing in the sky, a whirling and a snort-ing that might surely terrify most anybody,and those rogues just trembled in their boots,and half a dozen ran away with terrorstricken hoots. Down swooped a DRAGON,snorting fire, and, tucked from wing to…
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