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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 45

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passed through cloud after cloud, fog afterfog, expecting every moment to come out intosunlight, and to see the blue sky above them ; butthey went upward through this vast mass of fogand cloud until they had attained a height of fourmiles; and still they were not out of the clouds.It was not… … layers of cloud and fog. On coming down, theypassed through a fall of rain, and then, somedistance below that, through a snow-storm, the airall about them being thick with snow-flakes. This,it must be remembered, was in the summer-time,when the people on the earth had no idea that asnow-storm was…

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