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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 47

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ot a good horsey. There is a use to which the polarhare, or more properly its fur, isput, which is certainly novel. Thefur is so long that the Esquimauxwomen spin the hairs into thread,which they afterward knit into gloves.Captain Ross, the celebrated arctic ex-plorer, had such a pair of gloves… … I M going to tell you a story —Its nice, I know you11 say ; Not an old taleWorn out andstale —I made it myself, to-day. There was once a bee-_y<w-tiful princessOh, ever so long ago ! When fairies and kings And all such thingsWere common enough, you know. And oh, she was awfully lovely !With eyes…

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