The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 159
ristmas-time, to buygifts for my small nephews and nieces, repliedClaiborne, and of being trodden on, pushed,jammed, driven hither and thither, before I couldescape with a woolly baa-lamb or a set of laundry-tubs hugged to my despairing breast. But other-wise, I confess, I had forgotten the… … the decorations of the carved figures for use inchurches,—of which, especially of patron saints,vast numbers are made there,—there is nothingof greater importance in the valley than the con-struction of jumping-jacks and Noahs arks, vil-lages, rocking-horses, animals on rollers, andwooden dolls of…
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