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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 210

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 210 — Day ? 728 AUNT PORTIA AND THE BOYS. 729 Dear boys, rejoined Aunt Portia, I doubt if such a wasteOf powder and of moneyIs in the best of taste.The bells might ring, the band might play,But not a single gun— Fourth o July,Dismayed they cry, Without a bit of fun ! But crackers and torpedoes — Those… … ipP^IIP THE SPRITE OF THE HILLTOP. By John Vance Cheney. When noons are hot and very still, It s ho for the sprite that lives on the hill! Stealing along from nook to nook, Over the stones in the mountain brook, Along the path where the cattle go, On shyest ways that the hill-folk know; Through…

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