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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 362

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Sturdily trudging behind the cows; His hard little feet are red and bare, And his brown face laughs neath his tow-white hair.As blue are his round eyes, boyish-quick,As the ripe blue benies he stops to pick;And his few front teeth are sharp and small,Like the chipmunks he chases along the wall. And… … In the shoal waters along the coast south ofCape Henlopen, terrapin are caught in variousways. Dredges dragged along in the wake ofa sailing vessel pick them up. Nets stretchedacross some narrow arm of river or bay en-tangle the feet of any stray terrapin in theirmeshes; but these require the…

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