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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

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

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ed with grace and ease; i886.J THE BROWNIES IN THE GYMNASIUM. 69 They turned and tumbled left and right,As though they held existence light. Their coats from tail to collar rent Showed some through trying treatment went, And more, with usage much the same, Had scarce a button to their name. The… … At times a finger-tip was allBetween them and a fearful fall.On strength of toes they now depend,Or now on coat-tails of a friend —And had that cloth been less than bestThat looms could furnish, cast or west,Some members of the Brownie raceMight now be missing from their place.But fear, we know,…

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