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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 401

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all. 388 THE BROWNIES FRIENDLY TURN. [March, Our willing arras shall take the placeOf clanking chain and leathern trace,And round the door the wood we 11 strewUntil we hide the house from view. At once the Brownies sought the groundWhere fuel could with ease be found,— The wind that night was cold… … A place where forest fires had spread,And left the timber scorched and dead.And there through all the chilly nightThey tugged and tore with all their might;Some bearing branches as their load ;With lengthy poles still others strode,Or struggled, till they scarce could see,With logs that bent them…

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