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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 459

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le may be foundWho hardly know the world is round,But think it lies flat as the cakeWhich their good mothers used to make.When this they see turn like a wheelBefore the wind, some thoughts may stealInto their heads, where words could neerTake slightest root, though sown with care. Some bore the… … COMICAL PICTURES FOR THE LITTLE ONES. The globe itself before they knew; That it was hollow did appear, And quite unlike our own big sphere, That s filled with—who can say just what?- But something that we know is hot.

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