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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 771

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CURIOUS EFFECT RESEMBLING SOMEWHAT THEE.-\RTH AS SEEN FROM A B.\LLOON. IMade with a solution of alum. 750 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [June, A QUEER FIGHT. The odd fight here illustrated was witnessedin the Adirondacks. A dragon fly, evidently lay-ing her eggs, was flitting just bver the calm … A MINNOW ATTACKS A DRAGON FLY. water of a small stream, now and then touchingthe water with her tail. A minnow, apparentlymistaking the tip of the insects tail for the bodyof some tiny fly, and being just at that momentsomewhat hungry, seized it, when the tug of warbegan. The minnow held on firmly,…

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