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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 735

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was a boldlad, instead of hiding under a bed, skippedaround by the back yards and came to therear door of the Borough Presidents Palace. We wont be taking any to-day, saysthe cook, when she saw who was there. And I have nt any for you, says thebutchers boy. I came to see the BoroughPresident. And… … with a long, knotted-wood staff. He hadthe sharpest beady-beady eyes peering outunder shaggy eyebrows, which spread likewings from either side of his great long nose,and his gray beard hung down to the ground,and so did his arms, which were covered withhair, like the monkey in the Zoo—in fact,like…

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