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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 488

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A STREET IN POMPEII. burnt fowls, loaves of bread, black and hard but Just outside the ancient walls of the city was aperfect in shape, and blackened fruit and vege- long street leading away to Herculaneum—anothertables, which Charley saw afterward in the museum, and smaller town buried by the same… … THE INTERIOR OF A POMPEIAN HOUSE. In this museum, besides household utensils and tion. In those days, it was the custom to bury thejewelry, he saw skeletons of men and women that dead, not in single graves in consecrated cemeteries 462 DEAD CITY. [April, as we do now, but to burn the bodies and…

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