Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 314
high and low!Hop, Mr. Grasshopper — get up and go! Would Joe find it pleasant, I d just like to know,If / suddenly stretched, and, beginning to grow,Grew bigger, and bigger, and bigger—just so —And then, gently extending my little green toe,/ gayly cried out: Come, get up, little Joe ?Jump, little… … Joe Bently lived on a cattle-farm in the interiorof one of the New England States. His rough,wild life had developed in him great physicalstrength and endurance. At sixteen he grew tiredof his surroundings, and havingheard in the mean-time of the naval apprentice system, made up hismind that the…
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