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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 472

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mmonest kind of a dwellingwas the dug-out, which is merely a cellar witha roof. This was what they built, and here they settledpermanently, with only their animals for com-pany, for they were twenty-five miles from thenearest town, and fifteen miles from the nearestneighbor. They lived carefully,… … old, they named her Nebraska. She thrivedwonderfully on the rough fare, and at the ageof five years was a vigorous little maid. Hermother, who had been a Massachusetts school-teacher, attended to her little daughters educa-tion. Nebraska was such a go-ahead little body thatshe learned rapidly, for…

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