Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 638
Mr. Tortoise slip from my hold and break hisshell on the rocks below? Thinking was acting, and the tortoise was soonfalling at a rapid rate. Now this was a very wiseold tortoise, and he had prepared for such anemergency by concealing a parachute under hisshell. As he felt himself slipping from the…
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