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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 466

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I d like toknow? What a fine coat you have, Mynheer! saidthe beggar. I should like to be hugging it roundinc. Summer-time is the beggars holiday, Myn-heer— what with the good sun a-shining and cost-ing neer a penny, and the warm breezes flutteringand flapping the rags and tags so gaily; with… … mynheer! said the beggar. to know! said Antoonje, in his harsh voice.There are poor and there are rich in this world,and I m this and you re that. Move on, now ! Icant have a strange fellow in my barn. Here I am in a pretty fix, said the beggar,cheerily. And all because of having such atongue in my…

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