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Identifier: stnicholasserial392dodg (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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ve en-joyed a morning more. Ihave a train to catch now.and I shant be back till nextmonth. Are you going tooversee all this planting forme? If you will, I 11 giveyou a percentage for yourselfout of the dahlias and all theother things. And now I tellyou what I want to do, MissDeborah. If you have tolook up at my place, I haveto look down at yours. Youhave beautified my slopes; now I want to adda little beauty to your house. I have lumberhere I m not going to use, and I want Fenton toput a porch along the south side of your house.Will you let him? It will take down the heightand will make a pretty little house of it. I wantto do it for my own sake, if you 11 let me. Then he ran for his train, and Deborah didnot really know whether she had said No, thankyou, or Yes, thank you. But it must havebeen yes, for the very next morning Mr. Fentonsmen began to saw and fit and hammer by thelittle, dingy house. Those were exciting days. Boxes of plants andseeds arrived, and there was an experienced
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IF YOU I.L INVITE ME IN, I LL CARRY THAT WATER-POT FOR YOU. gardener at Mr. Danverss who lived for nothingbut to plant beauty as Deborah ordered it. Theporch took on its outline and filled out to com-pleteness. One day the painter whom Deborahhad fed with milk handed back the jug with avery grave face. That there milk seems to have some magic in 584 DEBORAHS CHANGE OF HEART it, he said solemnly. I declare if it aint turnedinto white paint; enough to cover your wholehouse. If you 11 say the word, I 11 smear it overodd times after hours; it 11 be a good-lookinglittle place when it gets whitened up. Have nt you got some green cheese around,too? laughed Mr. Fenton. I was just thinkingI ve got some blinds piled under a lot of rubbishover at the shop that would just fit these littlewindows. I took em off an old house ten yearsago. I 11 hang em if you 11 daub em over withgreen cheese. Oh ! cried Deborah. Everybody is so good.Could I really have blinds ? Not having them hasalways made the hou

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