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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 420

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; but if you get pep-pery, how can I ? Thorny spoke in a hearty, blunt way, whichsuited Ben much better than the other, and heresponded pleasantly : If you wont be grand I wont be peppery. No-body is going to boss me but Miss Celia, so I 11learn hymns if she wants me to. In the soft season of thy… … BEN AND THORNY IN THE GROVE. Now, Ben, I think you d better learn a hymn ;I I always used to when I was a little chap, and it isa good thing to do Sundays, began the newteacher with a patronizing air, which ruffled hispupil as much as the opprobrious term littlechap. I 11 be—whew—if I do ! whistled…

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