Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 463
ide,My name on the First Roll of Honor for prose. (It was usually verse that I tried. And t was only because the lines would not rhyme And I d worried and worried my headFor ages, in vain, that I gave up the verse And attempted to write prose instead.) There I sat with St. NICHOLAS, dreaming of how… … deer. by HERBERT MARSHCTZ, AGE 14. (IIRbT PRIZE, %VILD CREATURE PHOTOGRAPHY.) igop.] ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE 371 I That we English, we know not what valentines areSo there s nothing at all I can say. But please do believe me, if I had just known What a valentine was, I am sureI d have written a poem…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 463](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-stnicholasserial361dodg-463-545.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial34dodg-746-941.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial322dodg-706-926.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial321dodg-251-316.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial201dodg-282-266.webp)
![An illustration from Picture Posies. Poems chiefly by living authors, and drawings by F. Walker, J. W. North, A. B. Boughton [and others] ... Engraved by Dalziel Brothers (1874)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/bl-bl_002911096_0-115-1.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial351dodg-358-522.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial352dodg-559-615.webp)