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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 434

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t city, White is black, black is white ;Right is wrong, wrong is right. And the citizens are full of shifts and tricks.Thus, when a boat laden with a cargo of betel- nut came to the landing-place of that city, one ofthe citizens took from his own pouch a betel-nut,split it into halves, and cast one… … WOOD-CUTTER. And in the market-place of that city two menapproached each other, each with a closed bundle.And the first said, T have hulled rice in my bun-dle. And the second said, T have boiled rice inmine. And the first said, Let us exchange. Andthe second said Yea thereto. But no sooner hadthey…

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