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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 375

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ny cush-ion-like pad, which is called the empodium,and has also several other big names. Fromthis pad extend many small hairs with endsslightly knob-like, and through these hairs isgiven out a sticky liquid. This is so difficultto see, even with a microscope, that scientificmen were in doubt about… … Rut twenty-eight, and one day moreWe add to it one year in four—Till nineteen hundred comes around,And then no extra day is found. Poor February! Our way of dividing timeinto years and seasons is not perfect, and it isshe who must bear the burden of it all. Othermonths go along peacefully and…

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