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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 88

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ttle valu-ables in the earth of the garden-plots behindtheir huts, hoping to evade the pillaging handsof the heartless soldiery. At noon the weather-browned topsails of anEnglish man-of-war came rising in the offingfrom behind the Long Island hills, and slowlyapproached the harbor. After the first… … ARE YE ALL STARK DEAD TO HONOR? SAID PETER STUYVESANT.SHAME ON YOU! — SHAME! Beyond the confines of the little town nightlay like a muffling shroud upon the world;from down the bay came now and then the dullboom of a cannon, rolling heavily through thedarkness; a fisher-boat or two crept by…

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