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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 339

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ies.In the moonlight thesprites danced, wear-ing down the grassunder their feet—atleast so our grand-fathers said, but wemust take sciencessimple explanation ofit. A fungus plantwill soon exhaust allthe fungus food fromthe soil beneath it, so that only the spores whichfall outside this barren spot… … IF YOU TOUCH IT, WILL SHAKELIKE A BOWLFUL OF JELLY. (Tremella fuciformis.)

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