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Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (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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rtossed aside. In the spring of 1668 Titus married his cousin,Magdalena van Loo, and the young couple wentto live on the Singel, a quay facing the AppleMarket, in a house known as The GoldenScales. Their married life was very short, for in Sep-tember of the same year, Titus, who had neverbeen strong, died There is nothing that is stirring, and muchthat is sad, in this slender little thread of a life.The chief thing about Titus for us is that hewas painted with exquisite tenderness and feel- the boys father had borrowed large sums of ing by his great father, who, indeed, rarelymoney. All was now sold to pay the pressing painted children. creditorsâthe very ostrich-feather in Tituss capand the pearls in his ears. The family wasdeprived of everything save â two stoves !The winter of 1658 found father and son And thus he stands now in his white-plumedcap, brown doublet, and green cloak, lookingwith wonder out upon the wide world of whichhe was to know so little. Christian Brinton. 504
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FROM A CARBON PRINT BY BRAUN, CLEMENT & CO TITUS, THE SON OF THE PAINTER REMBRANDT. Vol. XXVII.â64-65. A NOCTURNE. The day was done, and in the westThe glowing sun sank to his $â¢;Gleamed in the heavens the first faint stars,The cows were at the pasture The wild fowl, rising from the pines,Flew in two long, converging = =.Straight where the sky and sea connectTheir leader took his course w(While yet the sunset glories burn),Nor ever swerved, nor made a «<w.Out on the lake rocked a small boat,And in it two who took no &Of time, until the darkening skyWarned them to land, their boat to Ej?And, to remove of risk all trace,They fastened to the stake a <. Soon from the boat they took some carp,Which they had caught with fish-hooks £,And, with a joyful smile ironic, râ6%â,â Drew out a bottle labeled ^^i=_ Their rods and guns, and this and that,They laid upon a rock quite fe.Their camp-fire lit, they did not fail,Ere cooking, first -;â; ââ-»â each fish to â

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