Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 595
also thestreets and floors! so, too, were roofs and fur-niture, the windows and the doors. But smokeand dust had come in clouds; the rain in floodshad run, until the mud upon the roofs hadquite obscured the sun. The folk had almostlost their sight from lack of light to use it,for if you do neglect… … In cleaning glass, she had remarked,there might be something doing. Theymelted lots of IVORY SOAP, and added oiland blue, and then applied it to a roof to seewhat it would do. Ere long they heard someshouts within; a man came running out. Thesun had pierced his gloominess and put thedark to rout.…
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