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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 854

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lk and fairies—friendlyhoppers, fireflies too, bouncing bugs, andpompous beetles hastened in—a happycrew! All at once, there came a Creature calledthe cow with crumpled horn—followed bythe freckled youngster who had found her inthe corn. There he saw the monstrouspumpkin, where the revelers held… … IT WAS GLOWING IN THE DARK! With my jack-knife I could make one ina jiffy, if I tried! Wont it be a jolly lanternwith a candle stuck inside? When you see a Jack-o-lantern, with itssaucy head a-tilt—pray remember, it waspatterned from the house thai Peter built!

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