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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 482

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ndcrop comes on later, and a curious use is madeof that. The tree-owner purchases one of thosequeer, big-tailed Syrian sheep, the tail ofwhich weighs twenty pounds when at the fullmaturity of its fatness; and then a strangestuffing process begins, not unlike the fatteningof the Strasburg geese.… … THE GROVE OF CEDAKS OF LEBANON. can be made to rest upon a ledge, there a mul-berry plant grows. It is a picturesque andthrilling sight to see a boy lowered by a ropeover the precipice, carrying a big basket ofearth and cuttings of mulberry twigs to plantin his hanging garden. The crop of…

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