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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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ure I, now placedbefore the syllable phy is placed before the syllableder, the word wonder will be formed. What arethe remaining words ? 1 phy 8 be6 der 2 of 80 in10 ca4 char 9 ere. ALICE I. H. FALSE COMPARATIVES. Example : Positive, a boy; comparative, a portableframe for ascending or descending. Answer, lad, ladder. 1. Positive, a rebsh; comparative, a small dish. 2. Positive, an excrescence; comparative, a liquid. 3. Positive, a kind of pastry ; comparative, a tyrant. 4. Positive, a person at whom ridicule is directed;comparative, something always on the breakfast-table. 5. Positive, a creature that lives on insects ; compara-tive, to pound. 6. Positive, a rug; comparative, substance. 7. Positive, part of the body; comparative, a riverof Germany. 8. Positive, a famous city ; comparative, a wanderer. 9. Positive, a market; comparative, one who makes agreat sacrifice for the sake of principle. 10. Positive, a bird ; comparative, a peddler. MARY F. STONE. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK.
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DRAWN BV C. M. RELYEA. LOOKING UP INTO HIS FACE, SHE SAID: THOU HAST MY WORD, SIR. (see page 457.) ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XXII. APRIL, 1895. No. 6. ALONG NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR. By Gustav Kobbe. The most northerly lighthouse on the coastof this continent stands on Belle Isle, at thehead of the straits of that name, a little north-cast of Newfoundland. By what freak of tasteit was called Belle Isle I cannot say; for eventhe old navigators had such a horror of it thaton their charts they marked it with the figureof a demon. The morning the little mail-steamer on whichI cruised down on the Labrador, as the New-foundlanders say, plunged and rolled past itthrough the surge, the rugged mass of rockcrouched there as if ready to seize its preyof ships and human lives. The surf, unheardat our distance, flashed around its base likea long row of glistening teeth. A huge iceberghad drifted in and lay stranded at one end ofthe island; far up on the rocks was the light-house ; on a shelf below stood

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