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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 162

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umpin big mountin roseright in the middle o the largest one. It wasa played-out volcano, and the top of its peakwas covered with real snow. That s what putthe notion into my mind first off. That afternoon me and the cook climbedthat peak and fetched down baskets full ofsnow and chunks of ice. Then… … Sg^ IT S A GO ! I SAYS, TAKIN HIM UP RIGHT OFF. to the muzzle with goats milk, and dumped ina couple o dozen o turtle-eggs, and sweetenedthe mess to taste with sugar-cane juice — andthen we fixed on a long bamboo pole to thesmall cask inside, and round I went as if it was 726 A YARN OF SAILOR BEN…

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