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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 442

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NEW YORK AND HIS MASTER rolled here. The Eastern boy quickly learns thegames and sports of the Western world, althoughthe native games are usually rather quiet anddignified. The boys of the desert are taught very littlefrom books, excepting the book of nature, but all WHAT SOME EGYPTIAN BOYS DO 249 … AN EGYPTIAN CAMEL-BOY of their training is in the direction of strengthand self-protection, so that they may meet fatigueand danger. One of the desert games is to runon the burning sands until quite exhausted andthen to be roundly scolded by their elders fornot continuing. They are not taught to be…

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