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Identifier: stnicholasserial351dodg (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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ood;Thro many sad vicissitudes it passed, till in their gleeThe children danced at Noel round the little Christmas Tree. This is the happiest thing of all, the little Fir Tree thought,For it had seen their happiness, one glimpse of pleasure caught.But oh! the scene must change again —and there comes up to meThe picture of you in the snow, poor little Christmas Tree! So when along the streets I go atjoyous Christmas-tide. And see the rows of evergreenspiled high on either side, I wonder if in one of them a soulmay chance to be The sad and suffering child-souliold badge.) of the little Christmas Tree. ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE 179 OUR CHRISTMAS PROSE COMPETITION. My Favorite Christmas Story_ proved, of course, a pop-ular subject for our young prose writers and the selectionof prize-winners was no easy matter. The work was mademore difficult than usual through the fact that so manycompetitors selected the same beautiful old stories to telland write about and then told and wrote about them so
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RUNNING WATER. BY ROSE EULTEEL, AGE 14. (GOLD BADGE.) well. The story of Bethlehem ■—■ the sweetest story evertold — was, as it must be, first o.f these, and then fol-lowed the Carol of Charles Dickens, Hans ChristianAndersens Match Girl, and that delightful, heartbreak-ing tale of another Carol, by Mrs. Kate DouglasWiggin. How sweet and tender must be the heart ofchildhood when such stories as these linger so lovinglythere, and how blest arethose who have beenpermitted to give usthese precious things!Truly their Christmasgiving has been of asort that shall maketheir names remem-bered and lovedthrough long, longreaches of time andchange. But we are not per-mitted to recall any ofthese stories here. Forso numerously and sowell were they remem-bered and retold, thatselection from them forprize-winning musthave meant injustice tomany who were notchosen. We were obliged at last to pass by these dear familiar tales, which all children know, orwill know, and to choose, for the most

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