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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (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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nct A !Then they all cried out, Hooray ! they will surely save the day;Give three cheers and hip, hurrah, boys, for the Bears of Precinct A ! The Volunteers sped oer the road as fast as fast could be;Though lumbersome and cumbersome, they hustled eagerly. They rent the air with yells, And they sounded horns and bells,And said, We will put out that fire, as you shall quickly see.And they laughed aloud in glee to think how cleverlyThey d reach the fire and put it out and get back home for tea. But what d you think those Bears found out when they their goal had won,And babbling and scrabbling they came up on a run ? The lurid glow had faded, And the village folk said, they did,That there was no fire! It only was the setting of the sun!But the Bears said, We had fun, and a very pleasant run,And, as you see, the fire is out, and so our work is done.It s such a lot of fun to put out a setting sun;And, as you see, the fire is out, so now our work is done ! 791 :^M^^^^^^^S^^^£&%^^M%f^^^^
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CANT. By Harriet Prescott Spofford. How history repeats itself, You II say, when you remember Grant,Who, in his boyhood days, once sought Throughout the lexicon for cant. He could not find the word that day,The earnest boy whose name was Grant; He never found it through long years,With all their power to disenchant. No hostile host could give him pause; Rivers and mountains could not daunt;He never found that hindering word — The steadfast man whose name was Grant. 79 2 THE LARGEST SOUASH. By Allan P. Ames. When Mr. Armitage, who kept the newshoe-store, announced his prize squash contest,Daltonville wondered how he could afford it.There were fifteen prizes, ranging from a setof parlor furniture said to be worth forty-fivedollars, to a fifty-cent jack-knife. But whenpeople learned the conditions of the competi-tion, they ceased wondering and admired hisbusiness enterprise. For only squashes grownfrom seeds obtained of Mr. Armitage were eli-gible for prizes, and to get seeds it was ne

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