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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 422

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dropped overon the garden side, among my flowers, amongmy apples, and, worse than all, near to a benchspread with bowls of fresh, clear crab-applejelly, left out to harden in the air. very neighborhood of the creature was enoughto destroy it, I thought angrily, and it might aswell complete the… … RLIN FINDS A FEAST. I had made it, and I knew that it was the per-fection of jelly, clear as spring water, pink asblossoms, and flavored with sprigs of lemonverbena. It was perfection when it was made,and my leaving it for twenty-four hours in thegarden was a sentiment, a sort of charm, a bap-tism…

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