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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 241

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e) Who makes the home so sweet? I asked ;Who cares for us so well ?Who does the thousand loving deedsOf which we cannot tell? Its Mother mends the rips and tearsThat barbed-wire fences make, And gives you paregoric If your tooth begins to ache. She helps you off to school each day,With pencil,… … A DECEMBER HEADING. BY LOIS MCCAIN, AGE 17. And Mother s ready to forgive; She seems to understandHow folks dont always act as well As they at first have planned. And now the truth came over me,My thoughts no more did roam ; With sympathy for every one, It s Mother who makes the home! AN IMPORTANT…

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