Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 141
of me ! Paul exclaimed. You are a goose! said the voice. Makethe men a speech and tell them to go back to-work. Paul obeyed, and made the workmen a shortspeech; and they were so fond of him that theyonce more went to work. If the old fellows come to trouble you again,Paul, I 11 fix em ! said the… … THE DANCING TROWEL. erect again, and bowed in turn to all present, afterwhich it began to spin round on its point in awaltz. Never did anybody see a merrier or quickerwaltz. The trowel spun so rapidly that you couldhardly see it, and inch by inch it drew near thespot where the burgomasters were…
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