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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 223

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d I was only six. 780 THE AGE OF WISDOM. [July, And oh, the foolish, foolish things We fancied before that!We thought the hills could touch the sky, And that the earth was flat;That fairy stories might come true, And dragons be alive,When Reginald was only four, And I was only five. It s such a… … HE Grand Duchess walkedin the palace gardens. Byher side was the statelyhead nurse; for the GrandDuchess was young. Be-hind her were two pages, who held up hertrain of cloth of gold. The Grand Duchess kicked up the stones nowand then with the toe of a daintily pointedshoe, and presently she sighed…

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