Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 589
THE LETTER-BOX Nagasaki, Japan.Dear St. Nicholas: I live in Nagasaki and I am tenyears old. I like it in Japan. I am sending a pictureof a little baby. The Japanese are quite small. The mothers carry thebabies on their backs and so do the tiny little children.It looks so funny when they play… … A LITTLE JAPANESE BABY. carry dolls on their backs. The babys name in thepicture I send you is Fuji; it means Wistaria, whichis one of Japans most beautiful flowers. The babybelongs to our amah, or nurse, and it is a little girl. I like the St. Nicholas, and when my mother waslittle she had it too.…
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