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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 371

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A LITTLE HAWAIIAN CADDY. Water sports are by no means the only vigor-ous athletics indulged in by the boys of Hawaii.Mountain climbing is a favorite pastime, forthere are peaks four thousand feet high withineasy walking distance of any part of Honolulu,and on the island of Hawaii there are two moun- … the mountain sides that the pupils may gatherland-shells. It is on these excursions in search ofland-shells that the Hawaiian school-boys revelin the once national sport—mountain-sliding. A very steep mountain side is selected, wherethe grass is long and sloping downward. Everyone gathers his own…

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