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Grace Duffie Boylan
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The Steps to Nowhere
- by Grace Duffie Boylan
- (Baker and Taylor, 1910)
Patty and Traddy Lee, the children of a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers who is suddenly sent to work on the Panama Canal, are unintentionally left on their own for a few weeks during which they run into a clock that runs backward and takes them to 17th century New York, Captain Kidd, parts unknown in Central America, and a kind of Neverland called the Land of the Vanished People, —Michael Main
“Where you doin?” he asked, quite as though he had been accustomed to meeting old clocks on the stairs.
“I’m bound for yes-ter-day,” the clock replied. “Want to go to yes-ter-day?”
