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Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (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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ildren, — children of all classesand ages, at sport and work and play,—untilthe Parisian parents clamored for him to makeportraits of their little ones, we have never hada painter in ordinary to children. The children claim M. de Monvel; andsince the French edition of St. Nicholas,years ago, was among the very first of theperiodicals to give him work, it is understood that we have the right to take a close andpersonal interest in his career. The French boy at his games and pleasures,on the way to the Lycee, with his black leatherportfolio, dashing through the Bois de Bou-logne on horseback, playing in the Tuileries orLuxembourg Gardens at the various Frenchgames with his companions—the French boy,poor or rich, scholar or apprentice, is in dressand manner a very different being from ourown little fellows in America. He wears his trousers short, very full, anddrawn in at the knee by an elastic band. Hissuit is a sailor-suit. His legs, in the coldest 94 MAURICE BOUTET DE MONVEL. 95
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COUNTRY CHILDREN GOING TO SCHOOL. winter weather, are often bare. On his head His suit is covered by a black apron, gatheredis a cap known as the beret; over his shoul- in around his waist by a leather belt. Suchders is thrown a capuchon, or hooded cape, is the school-boy darting across the park and 96 MAURICE BOUTET DE MONVEL. (Dec. boulevard, an especially picturesque figure ina city where all is picturesque. As to the little girls, they are perfectly be-witching! With their nurses they flit up anddown the Avenue du Bois, their pretty dresses,flying ribbons, and big hats making brightspots of color as they troop up the Champs-Elysees, or stop before a Punch and JudyShow, or to buy a toy from the booths of thevenders. These are the rich little maidens.Then there are the Jeannes and Maries andCatharines of the people, in soberer clothes,coarse blue stockings, stout laced boots, theirdresses covered by the inevitable black apron.Hatless they go, winter and summer, to school,the neat pi

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