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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 327

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eep violetfringe. You can hang it above the entrance ofyour fair grounds as a sign that you are actingwith my permission. If any one disputes yourright or touches his masters glove, I will attendto him, that s all. So the glove would travelin state to open the fair. In the thirteenth century a… … DULY SIGNED AND SEALED —BY A GLOVE. lord who, when a boy, had been fonder of warand the chase than of writing and reading,would fling down his glove among the legalpapers drawn up for arranging some businessmatter, and say that that was his way of sign- ing papers and giving his signature. Theglove…

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