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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 162

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leam of his lantern brightFlitting about in the quiet night.He balances on the cattail tops,Then to the rustling reeds he drops,And reeds to the rushes will softly lisp,Here comes, dancing, Will-o-the-Wisp,Will-o-the-Wisp so gay. The east grows gray at the touch of dawn.Presto! Will-o-the-Wisp is… … This is not a chronicle of an infant phenomenon,but just a true story of a bishop, and a boywhose life was largely molded by the followingincident. The oaks of England have always been cele-brated, and I know of no finer sight than anancient grove still in its prime, growing in asunny glade of…

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