Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 149
A SUMMER HOME FOR POOR CHILDREN. [June, for a half-hour, till the magic word lunch salutestheir ears. Then, in a twinkling, rags and dudsare huddled on, and the boys, hungrier thanbefore, join the procession forming for anothermarch through the dining-room. The next course—in lunch—is water-melon,… … PtffP A HAPPY MELON PARTY. The former scene is repeated, and now each onehas had four slices of bread and two of meat.Again the scups have a turn, two or three boysin each, and the croquet balls get some hardknocks, the bean-bags take extraordinary flights,and the trees are full of clambering boys…
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