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Identifier: stnicholasserial372dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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? Why, yes; but where should they begin? Anywhere else, my boy. Middle, middle-end,middle-beginning, end—any old place but the be-ginning. Donald looked up with a half-incredulous smile. You talk a lot of nonsense —for a big boy,dont you? Nonsense? I? Never! In fact, so seriousis my talk that I m privately known as SolomonSolemncholy. But how in the world would you tell a storythat did nt begin at the beginning? Donaldseyes were round with inquiry. Easy enough. It s the most foolish thing inthe world to begin a story at the beginning. Take,for instance, the story of The Little Fishes thatLived on Moon Street. Now where would youstart that? I dont know that story, began Donald. Of course you dont. But if you did, howwould you tell it? Once upon a time there weresome little fishes that lived on Moon Street— Yes. That s the way most stories begin. Well, it s all wrong. The thing to do is toget away from the beginning. Tell it somewhatlike this: And so, having dragged the ferocious
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THE BOY BEHIND THE HEDGE LOOKED DOWN AT DONALD IN HIS CHAIR. 870 THE NONSENSE BOY (Aug., whale to the North Pole and locked him securelyin an iceberg, the kind, fat old seal returned,blew the signal All s well, and the little fishescame out again to dance all night on MoonStreet. But where is Moon Street? And what did thewhale do to them? And how did the seal know— You know where Moon Street is. It s a long,long avenue of light that stretches across thewater as far as you can see. Only the very hap-piest, goodest little fishes are allowed to live onMoon Street, and there they dance the wholenight long. You can see them, if you look closelyenough, splashing their silver tails in the two-step. But what about the whale and the seal and — Well, the seal is the sea policeman. He s verybig and very fat and very important, and he sim-ply was nt going to stand for any such thing. Any what thing? There was unwonted colorin the eager little face. Why, the whale. He came along, you know,knoc

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