Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 410
the column is about threeand ode-half inches. We have been subscribersto St. Nicholas — or havebought it — since the begin-ning of 1877, and are amongyour most loyal friends. Ithink if you could see themany invalids, country chil-dren longing for books, andfriends away from home inthe summer time,… … MORRISTOWN, N. J. Dear Old St. Nicholas : Just think, I am eighteen years old,and stricken down with that dreadful disease, the mumps ! To thinkof lying here, with my cheeks swollen like two puff-balls, and myneck so stiff that if I move it ever so little I am racked with pain, tobe waited on like…
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