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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 296

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-oh ! Not one of the many citizens who are passing notices him, or finds anything strange in that plaint-ive cry. The people who live in the city see himday after day, and remember how, in their child-hood, they had terrifying notions of his weaknessfor kidnapping and other mysterious… … very far off, for he, too, is gray from head to footwith ash-dust, and as he approaches us he comesout of the mist like a phantom, though in realityhe is a substantial, square-built, deep-chested fe\-VOL. V.—19. low, shod with enormous Bliicher shoes (the solesof which are bright with nails), and…

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