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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 472

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do not know what the prizes were, but Ido know that they were very well earned. THE LAND BEYOND THE WAVES. BY MARGUERITE STUART (AGE 17). Beyond the waves that sometimes, deeply blue, Come rippling toward the sands upon the beach,And sometimes, gray, with foamy white-caps decked,Defy and warn who… … WILD TURKEYS. BY MILDRED AKMOUK, AGE 14. (SECOND PRIZE, WILD-BIRD PHOTOGRAPH.) While nestling close among encircling hillsThe homes of peace and happiness abide.And all the ripples seem to sing to me : An ideal land lies yonder, oer the sea. There also lies a forest, still as death — Except,…

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