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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 35

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f a toy-shop.It is curious that even there, where there is so muchinterchange between the people, each nation makesits peculiar toys. Our shops bring toys from sev-eral of them, and they are quite different. FromGermany we get our box toys,—sets of stiffwooden soldiers, villages, farm-yards,… … mills, ships that rock, and men thatdance. Above all, they make mar-bles. In one place, the very roadsare paved with marbles not quiteround. Toys, of lead—soldiers andhorses, camels, chariots and shipsof war, locomotives, and others—nearly all comefrom Nuremburg, while tin toys—horses,…

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