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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 488

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ond Paper. The Eskimo children liave but few toys, andthese are only of the rudest kind. Yet it is sur-prising to see the amount of enjoyment they getfrom these trifling affairs, so easily are they amused. of reindeer sinew about six inches long. The ivoryor wooden pin is about as long as the… … glook-tahk, or, as it might be calledguage, Pin and Cup-ball. In Fi^an end and side view of the toy. It consists of twopieces, generally of walrus ivory, united by a string ball on the pin by thrusting the latter in one ofthe holes. This is done, as shown in the illustra-tion, by swinging the…

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