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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 428

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m theshore, and when it grew late a Czars salute wasfired from all the war-ships (our own guns join-ing), and then as darkness stole over the waterswe espied on the barren cliffs, line after line, likeglow-worms crawling, faint lights that grew andgrew, until, to the delight of the beholder,… … Hakodate, on the Isle ofEzo, in the Straits ofSangar, is only one de-gree south, yet shows nosign of lawlessness. Itis as green and crisp asa well-trimmed lawn, andthe pretty little whalingand sailing craft, withtheir poetic names andartistic figureheads oneach schooner, make onelong to shoulder a…

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