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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e. Papa ! oh. papa ! r e <pnrk :sholl1eil l.oger. Here \ve are. aw aybehind the rnshcs. (oming. an^u ered their father; anil ina moment more therushes were parted and a boat appeared, push-ed laboriously through the mud by Mr. L\ miand .Jerry. They bothuttered exclamationsof astonishment andhorror \\ hen they sawthe plight the childrenwere in. and, quicken-in «• their efforts, theyreadied them not onemoment too soon. Foras Mr. Lynn bent for-ward to sei/e Vida,the root under Rog-ers foot snapped, andhe would have beenenuulfed in the mudbut for Jerrys .stronghand. The pigeon had in-deed proved a goodmessenger, and car-ried Rogers note safe-ly home. It was dis-covered just in time tosave the children froma dreadful death. Goldneck was re-turned to the dove-cote and another birdsubstituted in its placeas a present for Tom.Because, Roger de-clared, he would notpart, with that onefor a fortune; and, be-sides, he says that heintends to turn it intoa carrier-pigeon in ear-nest some dav.
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634 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME IV. BY SYDNEY DAYRE.\7ES, theyre sending the poor things from the city JL all over the country for a mouthful of fresh air anda bite of something wholesome to eat. We ought to doour share, Aunt Nancy. Maybe so, Ruth, but its resky, to my mind. Eisk of what. Aunt Nancy? A couple of childrencant do much mischief oil an old farm in two weeks, ifthey do any. •Theyll do enough, you may be sure; but that aintall. ThVy do say theres no tellhf what you may catchfrom that sort, and that these people that goes among emjust takes their lives in their hands. They lives in dread-ful holes—all dirt and disease. Well, said Mrs. Pritchard. rather indignantly. Ithink they must be about the same kind of poor the Lordwent about among, only not so bad, perhaps, as those Heused to see. Seems to me He never told His disciples tokeep away for fear of catching things. And then how do you know what evil they may teachthem two boys of yourn ? Mrs. Pritchard looked sober. We

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