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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 167

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 167 — ars he was known familiarlyas Rufus, Red-Head, Car-rot-Top, or Nosey. His mother, married at nineteen, was the eldest of a family ofnine children; and many of The Boys auntsand uncles were but a few years his seniorand were his daily and familiar companions.He was the only member of his own… … ALWAYS IN THE WAY. He was always falling down, or droppingthings, he was always getting into the way;and he could not learn to spell correctly norto cipher at all. He was never in his mothersway, however, and he was never made to feelso. But nobody except The Boy knows of theagony which the rest of…

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