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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 251

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alittle. When dry enough it is again pressed in themold to give it a more perfect shape, and then isdried for the last time. The two halves being finished, they are glued together, and Miss Rosa-bel for the first time takes an upright position on ashelf, where she stands till she is hard and dry,… … SMOOTHING AND COLORING DOLLS* HEADS. Her next journey is to the eye-setter. A roughdoctor he is, and the first thing he does is to cutoff the top of her head, by running a sharp knifearound it, and knocking the piece out with a ham-mer. What for? Merely to put in her eyes, my dear;and a curious…

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