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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 400

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I9I3-] THE BROWNIES AND THE STALLED TRAIN 255 The broken tackle showing plainTheir elders lessons were in vain. It looked as though whatever grew In Africa, and India, too, In way of reptile, beast, or fowl, Was there to hiss, and scream, and howl, … Some things came loose when boxes tippedThat for menageries were shipped,And, for a moment, it seemed plainThat panic would a foothold gain;And it took courage of the bestTo shove things back into the nest.For some have daring that will riseSuperior to the shock that tries,And, as a tonic, give a…

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