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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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o trash! Po trash! But she aint by erself in dat! But she aint by erself in dat! 1 The guinea-fowl strays away from home and makes her nest in the fields. The newly hatched guinea-chicks arebeautiful, dainty things, with coral-colored feet which look very fine. The guineas cry, loud and harsh, sounds like Potterack! or Poor trash! 916 THE REFUGEE THE STRANGE STORY OF NETHER HALL BY CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON Author of The Lost Column, The Lost Empire, etc. Chapter XIX THE CUP AND THE LIP They explored the place from attic to cellar; theyransacked the cupboards, and rummaged thedrawers. They found several furnished rooms,and food and ale and bottles of wine—some full- dashed through the opening in the wall. Theyfound themselves in a small room, furnished as abedroom. The bed was very much ruffled, andhad evidently been slept in. Upon a table, in thecenter, were some dirty plates and glasses, andthe remnants of a meal. They looked everywhere,under the bed, behind the chest of drawers; but
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ANTHONY FOLLOWED THEM TO THE DOOR. and some emptied—but no single living soul wasanywhere to be found. Finally, they came back again to the passage,and were about to leave the house, when a panelslid softly open in the wall; and a hideous oldman, bent very low with age, and with only oneeye and a very crooked face, suddenly appearedin the flaming light of the torch. The five of them were in the passage. TheAustrian made a motion as if to run the old manthrough with his sword. Anthony and Roland there was no one there. Evidently the old manwith the crooked face had been the only occu-pant. They returned to the passage, where one of theconstables held the old man by the throat. Empty? asked the constable. Not a soul, said Anthony. At that the oldman laughed—a squeaky kind of a laugh. If you catch Jerry Abershaw ye 11 not let himget away again ? the old man croaked. Not if we get him, said the constable. 917 918 THE REFUGEE If Jerry gets away from prison, piped the oldman, he 11 flay

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