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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 329

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GENIE is a giantman most fearsome,gruflF and grim. Inyour Arabian NightsIm sure you all haveread of him. But thisespecial Genie beastwho came with rampand roar to thump ourIVORY heroes wasten cubits tall or more.The Genie thunderedas he came, to provehis frightful powers,but raging giantscould not… … They knew the road that he must take leddown a hill so steep that he would have tomind his steps and check his pace to keepfrom plunging headlong in a pond justwhere the roadway ended. This was thegreat strategic point that must be welldefended. And so our heroes soused theroad far up the rugged…

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