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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 334

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ople put ontheir very best clothes,and the children thebest of all, jackets andtrousers of bright blueor green or yellow orpurple, the boys andthe girls so much alikethat you can only tellthem apart by theirhair. The boys, ofcourse, is braided in apigtail, and the girlsis done up on her head with… … Perhaps Chinese children have rompingplays together, but they always look as if theywere born grown up. In Korea the little folks were by no means soprim. In that country everybody wears whiteclothes, but no one seems to say to the children, Now, mind, dont play in the dirt. Nearlyeverybody is poor…

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