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Holly and mistletoe (1890)

Rand, Mary Abbott, b. 1840, Belford, Clarke & Co., publisher · Chicago : Belford, Clarke & Co. · leaf 206

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gh-born parents in England, smuggled across seasand passed off as a rag-pickers daughter, in a greatcity. At last she had yearnings for a better home, and,believing that she would find it, ran away from thebad people who pretended to be her parents; andafter many adventures wandered to a wood.… … V /^. LOLA. Lonely knew her at once as her long-lost mother, andthe mother knew her child! Then followed a delicious description of lunch atthe castle, and the little reader, at that moment breath-ing a whiff of broiled mackerel, — she disliked mack-erel I— frowned and wished she were the lucky…

Children's literature, American

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