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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 330

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redwith glittering flakes. Nor wasthis all. The professor broughtforth tray after tray of thesebeautiful objects. Some lookedlike embroidery of gold on therich brown of an autumn leaf;some like tracings of silver.Some were little cups of scarletfoaming over, one would say.But no; this foamy crest… … THREE SPORE BALLS. TWO OPENED,ONE CLOSED. (SIX TIMES NATURALSIZE.) fibers, like fairy wool. Some were elfin cylin-ders of bronze, it seemed, mounted on pedes-tals of snowy marble, so small, so delicate, thatthe horns of elf-land faintly blowing wouldcertainly blow them all away. And yet, undera…

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