The ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE

GEORGE F. THOMSON, Editor

VOL. LV

CONTENTS for JANUARY, 1928

No. 3

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Frontispiece: " "I'm the only white man alive who knows how to get the snake-blood

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It was Cold, but There Were Ducks. Sketch..

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