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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 82

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ncy store. i885. FOR MIDDLE-AGED LITTLE FOLKS. 69 THE BROWNIES AND THE BICYCLES. By Palmer Cox. One evening Brownies, peeping downFrom bluffs that overlooked the town,Saw wheelmen passing to and froUpon the boulevard below.It seems, said one, an easy trick.The wheel goes round so smooth and… … Where here and there a building stands,And town and country-side join hands,Before me stood a massive wallWith engine-rooms and chimneys tall.To scale the place a way I found,And, creeping in, looked all around;There bicycles of every gradeAre manufactured for the trade ;Some made for baby hands to…

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