Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 818
it did those whowere our readers in 1879, when it appeared in Jack-in-the-Pulpit. It was written by Mary Mapes Dodge. THE MAGIC LEAF Now, my serious young botanists, here is something foryou, and for everybody else who has a magnifying-glass,to look at carefully—a Magic Leaf, which your… … quirer be quite alone ; second, that every line on theleaf be examined through a good magnifying-glass, andwith the left eye only, the right eye being kept closedby a gentle pressure from the middle finger of the lefthand, which must first be passed around by the backof the head; and third, that…
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