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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 55

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. Ah, those happy, happydays! How much misery I have known sincethen! One morning, when I came in from my earlyscamper, I fpund, to my astonishment, that mylittle mistress was still in bed. Jumping up besideher, I urged her with nose and paw to get up andplay, but her mother lifted me gently from… … togo performing with miss butterfly flower,(see page 607.) little mistress was always sleeping. Sometimes Iwould think I heard her call me, and jumpingfrom my basket, I would run quickly to her side;but she never seemed to know me, although Ilicked her little hand and whined. One morningwhen I woke…

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