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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 410

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nd. The Hollanders make so many uses of woodenshoes, one is persuaded to believe the Oldwoman who lived in a shoe, and had so many dreams of future wealth to be realized whenhis ship comes in. The boats that one may see on the rivers andthe coasts of Holland are not unlike the woodenshoes in shape,… … IN THE WORKSHOP. MAKING WOODEN SHOES. children she did nt know what to do, was aDutch vroicw. The children turn shoes into boats,and paint them a rich deep brown, in imitationof the large boats which sail on the river Maas.As they trim the tiny sails of their ships, andlaunch them upon the waters…

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