Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 734
reat deal better than they spell. The only rule I can give you for pronouncing the words In thisnew jargon is to give the final A a prolonged ah sound, like the A inafter. In fact, the language seems to be made up of oos and.ahs. Now that the boys have a secret language, I suppose secretmeetings… … THE HORSE AND THE SCARE-CROW. (DRAWN BY H. M. R arer, putting out his head to smell it, and when he is satisfiedilk away. Our horse did so, and I have tried to draw the sceneran my pen for the readers of St. Nicholas. Excuse all imperfec-}*ns. I am a little girl not yet twelve years of age.—Your…
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