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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 22

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he immense waves asthey came piling over eachother, and to see far out onthe stormy sea, the dancingfishing-boats, now riding ontop of the sea and now dis-appearing in the watery trough of the wind-swept ocean. Sometimes a bit of broken sparwould come tumbling in from the far-off wavesto tell its… … part of a childs night-dress clinging to it. Wherewas the little one who had worn this garment?And in what dismal wreck had some distressedmother tied it to this floating wood? Nothing evercame from the sea tD tell us. But all was not sad and tragical by the sea. Suchlarks as we used to have by the…

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