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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 114

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on account of thy sizeand thy manners, and then thou wilt have noth-ing to do but to carry gold earrings in thy ears,and a gold howdah on thy back, and a redcloth covered with gold on thy sides, and walkat the head of the processions of the King. elephant-lines, one stall to each elephant, andbig… … HE IS AFRAID OF ME, SAID LITTLE TOOMAI, AND HE MADE KALA NAG LIFT UP HIS FEET, ONE AFTER THE OTHER. Then I shall sit on thy neck, O Kala Nag,with a silver ankus, and men will run beforeus with golden sticks, crying, Room for theKings elephant! That will be good, KalaNag, but not so good as this…

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