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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 809

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The IVORY White, like falcon swift,swept in and on and through the writhingmass of horrid fish and bumped them blackand blue. And as it dashed, the white sudssplashed and bubbled oer the sea. ThusIVORY SOAP began its work of cleansingpurity. Meanwhile the rapid-fire gun shotIVORY SOAP and suds… … boat with squirms and horrid cusses. Theysoused the IVORY up and down; theyswashed it to and fro; they tossed it up ahundred feet; they dragged it down below!The cuttlefishes ramped and raged midsputtering and gloating, but our braveheroes fought right on, their IVORY boatstill floating. Of course…

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