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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 394

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elittle fish has finally been laid at rest many smallwhite eggs will be deposited in the body. Inabout a fortnight the eggs will hatch. The larvaproceeding from each egg will find its properfood in the body of the fish; and after feedingupon it for a month, until fully grown, will leavethe dead… … How Bobby could do such a thing, I m sureI dont know. For Bobby was nt the least bitof a bad boy; indeed, that very morning, AuntSarah had given him a piece of jelly-cake be-cause he was such a good boy to find her glassesfor her. Perhaps he did nt think about itsbeing good or bad at all; but just…

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