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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 334

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assure you, is always delicious. After supper we tellghost stories in the dark, read about robberies, or do any-thing which scares us so that we are afraid to go to bed alone. You see it is very hard to decide, but, after all, perhapsI do favor being entertained, for I think there are moreRebeccas… … C.OING IT AI HELEN LAYLIN, AGE 13. (SILVER BADGE.) And some one, from the blackest part,Might jump and grab me by the hair ! This told, my mother said: To-nightYou d better wait five minutes there, And when they re gone, you 11 hear me call.By there she meant the darkest part.T was bedtime then, so…

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