Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 667
ica are doing.My mother read it when she was a little girl, and Ienjoy it now. In native schools here the children learn their alpha-bet by writing in the sand, and they always read outloud. Once I went with my aunt, who is the Superin-tendent, to one of these schools. When we came to theschool we… … their hair, and red and green and yellow silk clothes.We saw one child in a boys velvet sailor suit, and wesaid, What a nice little boy! And they said, She isnot a boy, she s a girl. Her father did not want a girl,and so he dressed her like a boy. I am sending a picture of the boys writing in…
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