Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 114
e puzzled any but thosewell acquainted with the manners and customs ofdolls. A fourteenth rag baby, with a china head,hung by her neck from the rusty knocker in themiddle of the door. A sprig of white and one ofpurple lilac nodded over her, a dress of yellow-calico, richly trimmed with red flannel… … A RAG-BABY HlNG FRUM THE KUSTY KNOCKER. well as of surprise, might well have thrilled anyyouthful breast at such a spectacle, for why, oh !why, was this resplendent dolly hung up there tobe stared at by thirteen of her kindred ? Was shea criminal, the sight of whose execution threwthem flat upon…
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