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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 160

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our friend theGiant Tortoise serenely contemplating his fellow-captives of the bear-dens ! The problem of re-turning him to his own inclosure was met by fac- along the Atlantic coast represented all that wasto be the future United States; James Oglethorpehad not yet founded the colony of Georgia;… … THE GALAPAGOS TORTOISE AT THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK—DINNER-TIME. ing him in the proper direction, and giving him asmart rap on his shell. In the course of time, hisleisurely locomotion brought him back to his ownlawful domain. Perhaps in all the two centuriesof his existence, he had never experienced…

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