Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 106
ldwarf, not much bigger than either of them, asleepunder a toad-stool. He was an old dwarf, for hehad a long white beard, and he held in his lap apickax, made of a strong twig, with two sharpthorns growing from one end of it. Hi! whispered the lizard. Here is one ofthose digging dwarfs. Let s… … THE BEETLE SLIPPED QUIETLY UP TO THE DWARF. Oh, we can give him a little, said the lizard.He will not expect much. But how are we to catch him? asked thebeetle. If he hits one of us with that pickax, itwill hurt. 5»4 THE LOST STOPPER. [June, It will not hurt you, said the lizard. Yourshell is so…
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