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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 525

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, the wonderful child, with her pretty waysand quaint ideas, which she wrote down some-times in rhyme and sometimes in amusing prose.The story of Rab is founded on fact, and that ofMarjorie is wholly true. The doctors early loveof Latin asserted itself when he gave his collectedwritings the title… … eVainOhild JBy Emily Burt7 Though I still am rather little,Mother says that I am vain,For I like my ruffled dressesBetter than my ginghams plain. And she says I must outgrow itAnd not think about my clothes, So I 11 wear my gingham dressesAnd I 11 try to outgrow those. SHOWING OFF

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