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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 154

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seeing Sams- i8So.) THE FAIRFORT NINE. 657 father put an odd-looking frying-pan on the fire,asked: Is that your storm-pan? This was anunfortunate question. There was a foolish beliefamong the sailors of the bay that old Tumble hada pan by which he could raise a storm at any time, no storm-pan; at… … TUMBLE BLACK. by merely putting it on the fire; and when Billyasked the old man if that was the storm-pan,he put into words the idle superstition which hadled many a man, when out in a gale at night,to complain, Old Tumble has got on his storm-pan. Black looked angrily at the boy for a moment,and…

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