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Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ghtpassing through Thirty - fourth Street to see the twowindows. When I got better. Towsey sent me a candy basket witha dove in it. I regret to say my little sister and I resolvednot to eat the basket : but we each used to go and take alittle kind of lick of it once in a while, until one day\ve found that it had begun to disappear. I am sureyou and May wouldnt do that if you had chicken-poxever so! On Sunday I spent the day at such a funny old house.The little boy of the family was ahout your age, and justthink, his grandfathers have lived two hundred years inthat same house. It has a great big hall, and a big stair-case, and rooms with dee)) fire-places and wainscotedwalls. And the drawing-room furniture came from thecourt of Louis XIV. Do you know about him, Ted tThe house was an old colonial manor—your governesswill tell you what that means. After dinner the littleboy read aloud from ail interesting story-book, which weall found very pleasant. 312 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV.
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KITH AXI) KIN AM) K1SM-1- All this time Ted had been listening with his eyes andmouth wide open. Now, Aunt Lu, I dont think that was so much fun.Id a great deal rather have gone to Dick Swintons; andjust think! those ices, and they say that in the mottoestheres just the most wonderful things, and you pull em.and they go snap! and, o—o—o—oh! oh! oh! Just at this moment Aunt Mary came in. Why. Ted! Before he knew it he was in Aunt Marys lap. Just let me tell you what a time Ive been havingamong the shops. You know the windows are all full ofpretty things for Easter. There are beautiful picturecards, flowers arranged in all kinds of lovely ways, andeggs of all sizes daintily colored and ornamented withbeautiful designs for people to exchange as gifts on thegreat day that is so near. I felt so sorry for two poor little children who cameto these windows just to look, for they knew they couldntbuy any presents. I began to wonder what they wouldchoose. Two years ago I had such fun at E

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