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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 650

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Shame ! Hyacinth started, gave a jump, lost his footing, him out of the briars. Hyacinth, whose coat wasfull of thorns, and whose face was severely scratched,was neither glad nor grateful for this assistance. What are you doing here? he said, crossly. Some mischief, no doubt, or you d not be out… … the queen jumped nimbly from and tumbled off the wall into the garden. Oneof the coping-stones, dislodged by the fall, tumbledoff also, struck the glass bell over the tulip, andsmashed it to atoms. Out jumped the monarchof the mice, and vanished under a gooseberry-bush; while Hyacinth, who had…

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