Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 539
uite the same that theywere before. But the story would have no thrillingending after all—not even if it carried them out ofboyhood into manhood and old age. The livesof the great crowd of human beings about us aremore interesting in the living than to those wholook on. You have looked on while… … -visr. fall-en a-part in the at-tempt. come in-to the gar-den and see him walk on his stilts. Neds sis-ter, who slept in theroom un-der his, was wak-enedone morn-ing by a loud thump !thump ! o-ver her head, and aheav-y bump, as if Neds four-post bed-stead had sud-den-lybe-gun to dance a reel and…
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