Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 627
cats part wouldsend the mink hurrying farther up the tree, which he can climb much faster than any cat. The troutmight prove too heavy, and be dropped before the chase was over; though the mink, like its smallrelative the weasel, is very vicious, and would put up a fight for its food. It will be… … The salt sea-wind is gusting in,With whispered tales of danger-quests,With tales of heaving, foam-flecked wastes,And leaping, white-ringed billow crests. They see strange ships with orange sails,Blue harbors, too, and hill-ringed bays;They hear the soft-voiced foreign speech,The strumming harps,…
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