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Identifier: stnicholasserial222dodg (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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jogging along quietly, talking about theequator, suddenly they found themselves faceto face with the young dragon. There were seven travelers, and they gave THE DRAGON AND THE DRAGOON. 754 seven different sorts of yell, threw down theirbundles, and took to their own or their horsesheels, without arranging where to meet again. Now it happened, the dragon being greenishin hue, that he had not been seen until the partyof traders was just opposite; and consequentlythe fleeing traders separated into two parties.Four of them ran back toward the city they hadleft that morning, and three went helter-skelterdown into the valley town. As for the dragon, he was more scared thananybody; and he tried to run away too. But,being in too much of a hurry to climb eitherside of the pass, he ran first after one party, andthen after the other.Finding men in both di-rections, he returned and *howled dismally, j^ AgY? But when thepoor things terrorhad worn itselfout, he beganto nose aboutamong those (July,
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THEY TOOK TO THEIR OWN OR THEIR HORSES HEELS packages the travelers had thrown away. Hefound several packages of raisins, three or fourhams, some salted fish, and a small keg ofginger. He was very hungry, and devoured all this food without thinking of his digestion, andsoon after sank into an unquiet slumber. Meanwhile the seven travelers were relatingto the citizens and villagers the awful adventurethat had befallen them in the pass. The seventravelers told seven different stories, and theirlisteners, in carrying the report to their neigh-bors, freely invented whatever small detailseach found necessary. So by nightfall nearlyevery household had scared itself out of itsseven senses with a mixture of a little fact and agreat deal of guessing. By midnight both townand city were either dozing uneasily or werestaring wide awake with ears pricked up. And by midnight thatunhappy dragon waswide awake, too, andstruggling with a severeinternal pain. As hisdiet until then had beenmainly mountai

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