Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 86
ntry. You know that for about three hundred miles ofthe Lower Mississippi, the rich land at each side islow and flat; but that it has many lovely homes, J A C K - I N - T H E - P U L P IT. 579 broad cotton-fields, and gardens of sweetly scentedflowers; and the sunlight glitters and flashes… … THE CRAW-FISH. only prevented from overflowing by high side-banks of earth, or levees, built for that purpose. Well, it appears that it is through these walls ofdefense that the craw-fish loves to drive his tun-nels ; and the earth being soft, the holes are quicklyenlarged by the running of the…
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