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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 42

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rea-tures you ever caught.A really fastidious trout or bass dropped intothe Missouri would hang himself in despair—on a fish-hook. Now the Missouri might be forgiven forVol. XXIV.—71. straying west once in a while ; but what earthlyexcuse could it have for running right backnorth ? Yet that is just… … MAP SHOWING THE COURSE OF THE MISSOURI RIVER JUST ABOVE OMAHA. Naturally, such an absurd caper was boundto cause comment — that was natural. Justacross from Omaha a chain of great, beetlingbluffs towers above the valley. Indians say 562 A SHIFTING BOUNDARY. they stand there to keep the river from…

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