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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 368

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11 not be like thosepirates,Preparing for a fight,Who stamp and swear to raise your hair: Of course that is nt right.We 11 have no swearers in our crew,Although we 11 fight for booty, too,And run our foes with our rapiersthrough,When they do not die of fright. … MISS SLIP-O-THE-TONGUE. By Emma Huntington Nason. Miss Slip-o-the-Tongue her fate bemoaned,Though a maiden wise andwitty. (Her real name is Belinda Jones,And she lives in New York City.) But she has one failing, beyond a doubt: Whatever she s expounding,She twists the letters and words about In a…

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