Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 486
er you had just stowed away the last bite ofmince-pie you could hold at the end of a hugeturkey dinner, and see a little pinched girl feast-ing her eyes—merely her eyes —on a pile ofsteaming chestnuts on a venders stand? Once Idid. Did you ever turn away from your stackof Christmas gifts, piled so… … STORY-TELLING IN A PLAYGROUND. brary work. It might give you just a bit of apang to watch some of the eager, pathetic littlefaces; but we re none the worse for that sort ofa pang now and then. You see, so many of thechildren who gather in the story corner, shut offby screens from the main room, are…
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