Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 386
f our old mule, whose efforts to breakthe halter had almost dislocated her neck. DaddySimon was at his wits end ; he had no right to letour pets escape, but whenever he approachedthem with the catch-net, their antics threw themule into a new fit of terror. The skipper, how-ever, cut matters short… … Among the discoveries made recently in thegreat dead sea of the West, were some giganticoyster-shells, more than six feet long, each pair ofwhich once contained an animal that the averageboy-reader of St. Nicholas could not lift. Inother localities, shells of but one valve were foundfifteen feet…
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