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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 798

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very explicit directions, be-cause it is nt in his line to teach needlework;but the ingenuity of the boys and girls must makeup for his short-comings. Certain it is that the girls and boys of the redschool-house have made these shoes, and havemade them strong, and soft to the feet. NOT IN TO… … ONE OF JACK S PETS. t of a big needle and very coarse thread, they sewl the twist of grass to the cloth, adapting it to theshape of the pattern as best they can, and takingi care to lengthen the twist, as they go on, by splicingit with new spears of grass, so as to keep it of aboutthe same…

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