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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 645

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sight of poor, unhappy kiddies in a most dis-tressing plight. It was the Land of ShrunkenShirts and petty-panties where wee legs andarms were quite exposed to all the freezingair. The woolen things the kiddies wore had … shrunken into wrecks, and pulled around weelegs and arms and chafed dear backs andnecks. You Dears, you are neglected, cried ourBetty with a frown, as she adjusted shrunkenskirts and pulled small panties down. Oh,tell your mothers, right away, that if theyreally hope to keep wool clothes from…

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