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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 285

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ng less than makinga dummy imitation of himself, asleep on a cotin a corner of the telegraph-room, as a precau-tion in case the ghost should peer within tolearn the effect of his hauntings. In making the dummy Jack used a brown furcap for the head, a glimpse of which under an oldhat looked… … HELLO, IN THERE When over all he threw his overcoat, the imi-tation was complete; and chuckling at the sightof himself asleep, Jack lost no time in slippingforth. Tiptoeing to the window whose latch he hadloosened, he softly raised it, listened, and climb-ing through, dropped noiselessly to the…

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