Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 249
aroundher neck, while a warm little face was pressed closeto hers, and a sweet voice whispered in her ear: Look up, dear mother ! Here is your littlePatty, waiting to kiss you ! Then, you may be sure, the mother looked up,took Patty in her arms, and held her so close to 75o HOW LITTLE PATTY SAVED… … AT THE LITTLE DESK, SHE KNELT. that the purse is found, those cruel people, but Ican never be free from the taint of that dreadfulprison till I wash it away in the river. I must gonow, my baby,—the river is calling me ; kiss fatherand mother for me ; I cannot see them ! Then she kissed her child…
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