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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 241

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, where the moon floatedabout like a ball of pale fire; and down here it is bed-time and dark, andyou jerk me so when you untie my apron and take off my shoes. Pooh! said the nurse, what a foolish little girl — why, it s coldas ice in the sky, and, besides, who would ever undress you up there ?… … Miss May, stopyour nonsense;sit right down onthat chair and letme take off yourshoes. Oh, I dontwant to, please,said May, holdingfast to the win-dow-bench andtrying not to cry. You must,said nurse,—hername was Ann,— come, now,you naughty littlething ! I m not anaughty littlething, sobbedMay; it is…

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