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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 551

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of Panama! Only thirtymiles across, yet that thirty miles compelledCaptain Clark to take his battleship cleararound the South American continent. Four-teen thousand miles instead of four thousand!Fifty-nine days of furious steaming under forceddraft instead of less than twenty-one days!That was a… … .vlA NATURE-LESSON Ml By Carolyn Wells. Said grandpapa to Tommy White : That is a maple-tree;And standing next it, toward the iright,A slippery elm you see. A slippery elm ! cried Tommy; oh, ^^, jti , _,. Slippers are nice to wear ! ^^j, r^-^^-//^///J And when quite ripe and red they growI 11 come…

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