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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 713

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ork. THE LETTER-BOX Kaifeng, China.Dear St. Nicholas: My older sister Aurora takesyou, and we share the joy of reading you. She oncewrote you about our little Chinese dog named Darkie.One day we took him with us to sec some Chinese boysact a play about Okl China. They were acting on thelawn. They… … They tumbled over one another, and were nearly scaredout of their wits. Some of those in the crowd of spec-tators thought Darkie had been trained to do this. In Kaifeng, the camels pass through the country incaravans, just as they do in Egypt. We see them veryoften, because we live outside the city…

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