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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 362

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lanethat circles all the dens and leads the lions tothe ring. It is indeed a terrifying place — alow, dimly lighted passage, curving constantly,so that you see ahead scarcely twenty feet, andare always turning a slow corner, always peering these runways! Of course a lion has no busi-ness to be out… … rajahs attack upon bonavita in the RUNWAY. ahead uneasily and listening! What is that? in the runway, and looking in he saw the A soft tread? The glow of greenish eyeballs? quagga tearing along toward him. He con- Who can tell when a bolt may slip or a board eluded that some one had unfastened the…

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