Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 286
e bright-plumaged bird or the busy younghummer. All at once a black wind-storm dropped down from the skies,And it took this small, quarreling pair by surprise.It whirled them about, until, drenchedandhalf-dead,They both tumbled into a violet-bed.When the sun shone again—(this is what I have… … THE WHALE SMILES. [SEE PAGE 788.] Once upon a time, long, long ago, some tinycreatures began to build a castle, down deep be-neath the waves of the ocean. A rock just risingfrom the white sand was its foundation, in a quietspot where big and little fishes loved to swim. Silently and noiselessly the…
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