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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 214

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s, they make a veryfine show indeed. But there is something evenbetter worth seeing a little farther on, and that isthe palace museum, filled with strange presentswhich have been given to the Russian Czars by lived about a hundred years ago, and was not onlya count, but an admiral as well, though… … various kings, savage or civilized, from a jeweledsword presented by the first Napoleon to a Persiancarpet sent by the Ameer of Bokhara. On a table near the door lies a very curious relic,which every one who comes in notices at once. Itis a large silver dish, rolled up like a sheet ofpaper, so as…

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