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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 652

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string.This he untied and carefully counted off nine-teen, which he placed in his left-hand coat pocket.Then he took from that a single red bead, and be-stowed it in a right-hand pocket of his trousers. That s one sun, he said to himself, heavinga deep sigh. It seems a little thing, this counting… … TO-DAY IS NINETEEN SUNS. I SEE MY PEOPLE. (SEE PAGE That little red bead should not have been trans-ferred from one pocket to the other until the fol-lowing morning. This seemingly trifling mistakewas to cause him much hardship later. When the anchor was lifted, Okakok, at the railof the ship, took…

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