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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 289

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ing folded about the hips andtucked in under a belt. But weaving a batik is only a small part ofthe work of making a sarong. Under anotherwide portico a patient, skilful woman sat draw-ing the most beautiful designs on the whitecloth. First she made a border exactly like a back-gammon board at each… … GATEWAY AND GUARD. yet all came out in a regular figure in the end,just as the riders do at the circus when they allcanter out dressed as seventeenth-century cava-liers. The pencil with which this design was drawnshould not, perhaps, be called a pencil at all —it is very different from the ones St.…

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