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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 430

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en box,where it had a ludicrous expression, like an agedinfant in stocks for some misdemeanor; it gazedup into its mothers face with an unwinking glareof mingled appeal and resentment which wasirresistibly comic. It would not be possible to give any idea of theway in which the houses, sheds, boats,… … READY TO DO down from the hill on the roofs of the houses, onewould think they all belonged to a single set ofwalls, roofed at different heights and angles. Itwas a squalid and filthy spot; it would seemimpossible for human beings to breathe such air,and sleep in such dark, unventilated hovels for…

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