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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 85

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Even white people, looking intothe garden in a half-cloudy night, might feel rathershaky about the knees. The strange figures, seenby the misty light, are ghostly and uncanny. Ifthey look human by da)-, much more must theywhen the darkness hides part and reveals part.You all know how a familiar… … and-seek by moonlight in the Garden of the Gods ?It is not surprising, therefore, that people have atradition that this valley was once filled with gob-lins who were left here to guard a precious treasure;how a certain magician came at last, with a power-ful spell, and turned all the watchers into…

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