Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 407
is a baby fallen in ! Miss Bennett heard, and prepared im-jjj mediately to jump down from the roofof the bath-house, where she was watch-ing things from a high position, alwaysready for an accident. Meanwhile, the girl whodropped the child was so paralyzed by fear thatshe positively could not move… … baby, thrown in for a joke. So they all laughed and went on with the game, and Miss Bennett took no further trouble, and the poor girl had not even yet found the use of her tongue. By this time, several minutes had passed. And did the poor baby drown ? Not a bit of it! All in his rags, he just…
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