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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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ain on the west coast of Africa—was favor-able. This gave Ted time to get himself back intoEuropean garb and civilized ways, which he wasnot unwilling to do. He was kindly aided in allthis by the British consul, Mr. Wilkes, and alsoin his money affairs and in some purchases. At last all was ready, farewells were said, andTed and Achmed, with the ever-active Mally, setforth on their brief, comfortable voyage of someforty-eight hours to Gibraltar; and Ted Leslie,looking at his own face in the cracked mirror inhis stateroom, shook his finger at it, and said,with a hearty laugh: I know you, old chap, andyou look remarkably like that other chap whomwe left behind there in the interior; I mean TheYoung: Wizard of Morocco. THE END. PARENTAL THOUGHTFULNESS BY EUNICE WARD My big doll is called Hildegarde;The little one is Marjorie;The paper dolls are Evelyn,Bettina, and Elaine. The rag doll is named Claribel;The baby I call Gwendolen.I ve different taste from my mama-She named me Susan Jane.
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HOW THEY ORNAMENTED THE STERNS OF OI-D SHIPS. A WOODEN CARVING FROM A CLIPPERWHICH ADORNS THE POST OF A SEASIDE HOME IN MASSACHUSETTS. OLD FIGUREHEADS BY DAY ALLEN WILLEY When we see the great steamship silently andslowly entering the harbor or passing out to sea,the smoke pouring from its funnels and the waterfoaming away from its bow, our sight is arrestedbecause it is such a display of power, of might.When a vessel approaches, the first thing noticedis usually the bow, or the front part. Back inother clays the sailor believed the ship itself couldsee, in some mysterious way; so it often had eyesset in a framework in front of the bow, to lookout for the rock, the coming storm, other vessels,and thus warn the craft of danger. Such was one reason for what we now call thefigurehead; but in the older times the figureheadwas set up not only that the ship might see, butsometimes as a likeness of the war deity of thenation to which it belonged, or it was an imageof some so-called animal, b

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