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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 324

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n Norway — not asthey might be improved in America. In theWest, I am told, a good substitute for the withe-band has been found in a kind of leather capresembling the toe of a boot. As I have nevermyself tried this, I dare not express an opinionabout its practicability; but as it is of theutmost… … but would, I thinkbeing too heavy. When the skee has been prepared as abovedescribed, there only remains to put a doubleband through the middle ; the Norwegians makeit of twisted withes, and fit its size to the toe ofthe boot. If the band is too wide, so as toreach up on the instep, it is…

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