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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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uld be a great deal nicer if there wasnt any sea; thenyc MI wouldnt have to go in bathing. I dont like to go inbathing1, for you get so awfully wet. and the water chokesyou. Then there are ticks on the sea-shore in the grass.A tick is an insect that begins and bites you, and neverstops till youre all ettup, and then you die, and the tickkeeps on growing bigger all the time. There was once a hoy and a tick got on him and bithim, and kept on biting for three or four days, and it ettupthe boy till the tick was almost as big as the boy had been,and the boy wasnt any bigger than a marble, and he died,and his folks felt dreadlnlly about it. I never saw a tick,but I know that there are lots of them on the sea-shore,and thats reason enough not to like it. \V- siaid at a boarding-house while we were at thesea-shore. A boarding-house is a place where they giveyou pure country air and a few vegetables and a littlemeat, and I say giveme a jail where theyfeed you if they do keep you sllllt 11)) in
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I NEVER WAS SO FKIGHTENED IN MY LIFE. 582 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. the dark. There were a good many people in our board-ing-house, and I slept upstairs on the third story with threeother boys, and there were two more boys on the secondstory, and thats the way all the trouble happened. There is nothing that is better fun than a pillow light;that is, when youre home and have got your own pillows.and know theyre not loaded, as Mr. Travers says. Hewas real good about it, too, and I shaiit forget it, for mostany man would have been awfully mad, but he just madeas if he didnt care, only Sue went on about it as if I wasthe worst boy that ever lived. You see, we four boys on the third story thought itwould be fun to have a pillow fight with the two boyson the second story. We waited till everybody had goneto bed, and then we took our pillows and went out intothe hall just as quiet as could be, only Charley Thomp-son he fell over a trunk in the hall and made a tremendousnoise. One of t

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