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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 290

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bs and some burned cur-rants as ever it could possibly hold. Then he climbedto the top of his palm-tree and waited for the Rhi-noceros to come out of the water and put it on. And the Rhinoceros did. He buttoned it up theback with three buttons, and it tickled like cake-crumbs in bed. Then he wanted… … worse. Then he ran to the palm-tree and rubbed and rubbedand rubbed himself against it. He rubbed so much and sohard that he rubbed his skin into a great fold over his shoul-ders, and another fold over his back where the buttons usedto be (but he rubbed the buttons off), and he rubbed somemore…

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