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The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk (1894)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Century Co. · leaf 65

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seven-teenthcentury.Have you notread of it ?-how the cul-tivating andowning of tu-lips seemed fora while to bethe only thingmen cared for ?The first speci-men seen inHolland camefrom Constan-tinople in 15 99.Therarebeautyof the flower-called tulip on ^^^^ account of its resemblance to a turban… … THE TOWN 1UMP AT KITWYK. DUTCH ODDITIES 49 beds. At last this taste, growing to a fancy, then toan ambition, became a mania. The same thing wouldnow be called tulip on the brain. Everybody had

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