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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 436

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imself flat upon hisback in one of the low-ceiled cliff caves that aboundin western China, while the screen of vines that had At once he recognized the child. She was Woo(the high-spirited or dauntless one), thebright young girl whom he had often noticed inthe throng at his mission-house in Tung… … AGILE LITTLE WOO WAS QUICKER THAN THE TARTAR HORSEMAN. concealed its entrance still quivered from his fall.Picking himself up and breathing a prayer ofthanks for his deliverance, he peered through theleafy doorway and beheld in surprise six much as-tonished Tartar robbers regarding with looks…

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