Wit bought; or, The life and adventures of Robert Merry (1844)
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · New York, Wiley & Putnam · leaf 100
k or rail which hehad plucked from a neighboring fence. Call-ing aloud for all around to give place, helaid the rail down upon the ice, and dexter-ously slid it across the opening, pushing it sc WILL BURY. 83 close as to bring it within my reach. I was,however, so benumbed, that, in attemptingto… … arm, while he held on to the rail by the left,he supported himself and me; at the sametime he commanded the boys to get twomore rails. These were brought and laidacross the opening, and thus support wasfurnished for two of them to come and lift usout. In this way my life was saved : I owed itto the…
Children's stories, American
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