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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 444

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apple-trees wore pink and white that day,and the little girl wears the apple-blossom eversince as her own flower. From November until May the fairies have fullpossession of the Lodge, and it is supposed thatthe frost-sprites, who drift down from the Northduring that season, make it their… … FAIRY LODGE between, and there are grass-pinks and portu-lacca in the borders, with settings of marigold andlarkspur, of corn-lily and peony and poppies, allentangled with vagrant sweet-pea and morning-glory; while, farther back, stand hollyhocks andsunflowers in a stately row. And the…

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