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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 498

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his ding and dong, thestrain of a soft voice reached him out of the dis-tance : Toot! Toot! chimed in the distant voice;Keepoff! Keepoff! Hard by in the water quickly toward the ledge. This woke the bell-buoyfrom his selfish dream, he bounded back, andgrappled bottom again with the anchor he… … that might have followed, if he had listened to hisheart and drifted away to the fog-horn, and ever after he held quite fast to his post, though he oftenfelt lonely and sad. At least, thought he, welive the same life, though apart, our voices chimeoften together, and our efforts unite in the…

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