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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 481

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at he forgot to lookcarefully before him as he ran. On turning a corner, and trying to look overhis shoulder at the same time, to see whether thecart was coming, he tripped and fell flat upon theground. The egg, which was still in his pocket, wascrushed into a shapeless mass, and Rab knew hischance… … RAB STEALS AN EGG. it looked as if he had been trying to paint a goldensunset on one side of his jacket. What to do next, puzzled him. His firstthought was to go back and try to explain theaccident by telling a lie about how the egg camein his pocket. Rab never had told a lie in his life, but it…

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