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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 360

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 360 — , my friends, For work that ere the morning ends. So bring your mystic skill in play, That failure may not mark our way. To help a couple poor and old Against the coming winters cold, We 11 plan to stitch some things together In shape of quilts, for frosty weather; Old bones, we know, can illy bear… … MORE IN THE RAG-BAGS QUICKLY SOUGHT. A-waiting buyers, who are slow;While, sad to see, this aged pairHave not received attention fair. night we 11 have a quilting-bee,And leave some work the world should see.The Brownies were notlong about fore their labor was laid out:

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