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Identifier: stnicholasserial221dodg (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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ed contain the same numberof letters. When these are rightly guessed, and placedone below another, in the order here given, the zigzag,beginning at the upper left-hand letter, will spell thename of a famous musician born in February, 1S10. CROSS-WORDS : 1. A large river of Germany. 2. An-other river of Germany. 3. Penetrating. 4. A crusta-cean. 5. An amphibious animal. 6. To boast. 7. Anumber. 8. The bill of a bird. 9. A beautiful Italianlake. 10. A town of Germany, and the scene of one of Make the following changes by prefixing and suffixingthe same letter. Examples : Change a sound to rocks.Answer, s-tone-s. Change a feminine name to a title.Answer, m-ada-m. 1. Change a tree to thorns. 2. Change a kind ofpastry to detectives. 3. Change a kind of meat to pre-tenses. 4. Change a pronoun to an exclamation of sur-prise. 5. Change the evening before a holiday to flat.6. Change tended to supplies. 7. Change to hock tomeditation. ALICE I. H. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK. ■ ■ A ■ x- N
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ENGRAVED BY T. JOHNSO. NTING BY J. W. ALEXANDER PORTRAIT OF A CHILD. ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XXII. MARCH, 1895 No. 5. THE BOYS WAR. By Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. There had been war between the East-sidersand the West-siders as long as any one could re-member. If an East-side boy crossed the river,he knew that he was in hostile territory; andhe took his chances of a thrashing from the na-tives. A West-side boy fared no better if heventured to reconnoiter unattended beyond the sufficed, and that the boys, having once hadso serious a warning of peril, would have set-tled their differences and concluded henceforthto live peaceably. But, I am sorry to say, thatidea did not occur to any of them. The Musk-rat, whose real name was Marcus Henning (theson of a country huckster), was promoted, for boundaries of his own tribe. It was a matter bravery on the field, to a lieutenancy, and heof honor with each faction to allow no invasions was assigned to duty as adjutant to Generalon the part of the enemy,

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