Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 324
ST. NICHOLAS ADVERTISEMENTS 45 … Do not laugh, gentlereader. You are wit-nessing the keenest tragedyof boyhood. The youngman who has just pickedthe trousers off the Christ-mas tree, had reasonablyhoped for a King Air Rifle instead. Now behold him filled withdisappointment and mortification ashis chumspresent arms—the hand-some…
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