Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 203
r ever so many great-grand-mothers, did nt go into good society. They werea very common family of clogs, who would lick thebones they ate, and make a noise with their mouthswhen they drank. Pedro was born in a barn ; that was against him.And it was a rag-dealers barn at that, and his firstbed was a… … that he thought that was what boys and stonesand cords were for. But Pedros mother, poorthing, she knew what it all meant. She knewthat of all the diseases incident to puppyhood, boysand stones, complicated with cords, was the mostfatal. Pedros mother had lost seventeen of herdarlings in a similar…
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