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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 331

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men, good and true, was speedih-impaneled. Attorneys and tipstaves, sheriff andclerk were appointed, and in less time than ittakes to narrate it, there we were, seated on pilesof pine-brush around a roaring camp-fire, withthe snow falling fast and getting deeper everyhour, trying the celebrated… … CHRIbTMAS-E\ H AROlND THE CAMF-FIRE. and put an end to it. The case is—let s see;what 11 we call it? I m not a very good hand atthe legal lingo, but 1 suppose if we call it a motionto quash a writ of ejectment, or something of thatsort, we 11 be within the lines of the law. Letme now state the case…

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