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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 368

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 368 — 877 ing to watch the native try his remarkable aquaticleap, foot foremost, while he plunges into thewater, head first. The white lad has taught thenative boy to play base-ball, and the native hastaught his fair-skinned American cousin all thesports of his forefathers. In Hawaii the Japanese… … A SURF-RIDER STANDING. are in a class by themselves, more than equal thenumber of American-born children in Hawaii;yet it is the white children only who have suc-cessfully mastered the Hawaiian sports. I wasmore than amused when learning to ride the surf-board to notice that the Japanese seemed…

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