Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 220
e. Dont fling any of thosemissiles, boys ! He stepped to the end of the platform, and stoodthere weaponless, his right hand clenched and rest-ing on his hip, in a favorite attitude, the otherhanging loosely by his side; rather thin of faceand lank of form, but of goodly height, long-limbed and… … FIRE-CRACKERS BY THE MILLION CELEBRATING THE CHINESE NEW YEAR. The Chinese New Years day in 1882 fell on theseventeenth of February. They have a week of hol-idays at their New Year, just as we do between thetwenty-fifth of December and the first of January. On Thursday, the sixteenth, the…
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