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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (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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d together on theplank, watching the dragon-fly tossing about onthe water. Oh, I wish we could get it, said the littlegirl, looking at it wistfully; if it would onlycome just in front of us ! Take care, said Sadakichi, holding herback, while the dragon-fly, bobbing up anddown among the ripples, gradually drifted far-ther off. Now Bunkichi, seeing there was a small boatlying alongside the jetty, had said to Sadakichi, Let me row out and get it, and was drawingthe boat toward him, when he was abruptlystopped by Sadakichi. No, no ; you must ntthink of putting out from the shore. If you do,you are certain to be eaten up by the wani-zatne. % Yes, its quite true, chimed in the little girl. There s a horrid wanizame that prevents anyone going on the sea. Only yesterday it cap-tured somebody. \ Pronounced wah-ne-zahmay, 1904.) OR FROM SHARK-BOY TO MERCHANT PRINCE. 781 Yes — a young man from the brewery, saidSadakichi. He had some barrels in his boat,and he had gone only two or three hundred
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why, it s just like a real dragon-fly! she cried, with delight yards when the shark came up and overturnedhis boat and seized him. It does nt matter about the dragon-fly;I dont want it; let us go back to the house.And the little child, frightened in good earnest,took hold of Bunkichis arm. It was the first time Bunkichi had heardabout the wanizame. Is it really true, miss,that there is a wanizame in the bay ? heasked. Yes; I can tell you it s very serious. Idont know how many people it has eaten in thelast month. Really! But how big is it ? I dont know what you would call big, broke in Sadakichi. But it s about as big asthis house. If it sees a small boat, it overtakesit in no time and topples it over, and if it is a bigboat it gets in the wayand stops it so that itcant move, and so thefishermen cant go out,and no cargo can comeinto the port. I sup-■ pose it must be want offood that has broughtit into this harbor; but,however that may be, itthinks nothing of up-setting the small cra

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