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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 295

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w our magician arranged twelvepretty goblets, while Harry blew bubbles froma sea-shell, into the small end of which a holehad been bored. See, he exclaimed, how much finer andlarger these bubbles are than bubbles blown that one well might have doubted whether from pipes ; and they are more easily… … to cover nine or ten of the glasses;but a bubble seemed always to burstbefore the twelfth was covered. Fi-nally, by wonderful quickness, theysucceeded in achieving this feat. Each now took a large funnel, dipped itinto the mixture, placed the small end in hismouth, approached the other until the…

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