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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 155

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s black as ink, theirfaces dark with crime, their hands andcoat tails and their hats were caked withmad and grime. And furthermore, thesewretched men made naughty plans onSunday to dirty up the drying clothesthat mother washes Monday. It was on Tuesday, bright and clear, onwhich our story falls.… … been out all night and made some splendidhauls. Theyd stripped a score of clothes-lines and had made a snowy pile of daintygowns and aprons white, and frocks ofevery style. Those roaring robbersdanced and pranced about that pile withglee, their horrid howls were bad to hear,their grins were bad to…

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