Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 558
not hear Peters All right! cried Jake, as the mule creptaway. Perhaps all the readers of St. Nicholas do notknow that schnilz among the Pennsylvania Dutchmeans dried apples. A schnitzen is a party wherethe invited guests are expected to help in paringthe apples, and cutting them for drying;… … JAKE ON HIS MULE. call. Jake had a great deal of time for readingduring his slow journeys, and had become veryfond of it. The little circulating library of Dum-barton supplied him with books. And, as the girlsand boys of the region in which he lived had fewbooks, and read very little, Jakes…
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