St. Nicholas, Volume 12Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1885 - Children's literature |
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... Mother Duck .. How Sport Saved the Kittens The Long Train Little Red Hen The Patient Cat . DEPARTMENTS . Helen C. Stockton 552 Emma C. Dowd .. 553 Bessie Parker ...... . 630 De Witt C. Lockwood ... 710 Laura E. Richards ... 790 Eudora M ...
... Mother Duck .. How Sport Saved the Kittens The Long Train Little Red Hen The Patient Cat . DEPARTMENTS . Helen C. Stockton 552 Emma C. Dowd .. 553 Bessie Parker ...... . 630 De Witt C. Lockwood ... 710 Laura E. Richards ... 790 Eudora M ...
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... mother , with many questions , and exclamations of thanks- giving , undressed the little fellow , wrapped him in ... mothers , he made light of the whole affair . " I've swum in that crick so often that it was nothin ' to me . You only ...
... mother , with many questions , and exclamations of thanks- giving , undressed the little fellow , wrapped him in ... mothers , he made light of the whole affair . " I've swum in that crick so often that it was nothin ' to me . You only ...
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... mother , and again watched us from the window with great interest . I rigged upon the barrow a rack , in which I wheeled the rubbish gathered at a distance ; and by the time my wife's mellow voice called , " Come to dinner , " we had ...
... mother , and again watched us from the window with great interest . I rigged upon the barrow a rack , in which I wheeled the rubbish gathered at a distance ; and by the time my wife's mellow voice called , " Come to dinner , " we had ...
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... mother and daughter , who had been kept indoors so long , enjoyed themselves . Mr. Jones was right . I received better and clearer ideas of vine - pruning in half an hour from studying those that had been properly trimmed , and by ...
... mother and daughter , who had been kept indoors so long , enjoyed themselves . Mr. Jones was right . I received better and clearer ideas of vine - pruning in half an hour from studying those that had been properly trimmed , and by ...
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... in her hand , and a look of such gladness in her face , that the tears sprung to the mother's eyes as she thought of what might have been . CHAPTER XVI . ELSIE BENTING was thrilled with something deeper. 500 [ MAY , LITTLE BRITOMARTIS .
... in her hand , and a look of such gladness in her face , that the tears sprung to the mother's eyes as she thought of what might have been . CHAPTER XVI . ELSIE BENTING was thrilled with something deeper. 500 [ MAY , LITTLE BRITOMARTIS .
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