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Identifier: stnicholasserial371dodg (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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n it was no pleasant playTo drag them landward in dismay —A group that well might laughter wake,Were not the lives of all at stake. At times they slipped, as folk will doHowever well they plant the shoe,For ice, since first it spanned a stream,Could cheat the eyes, and bring the scream,And prove itself, from end to endThrough frosty lands, the doctors friend. The job was cold, but inward heatKept them aglow from head to feet, THE BROWNIES ICE-HARVEST 445 And no great sympathy we needTo waste upon the elfin breed,But save it for our own poor brood,Whose supernatural traits are crude. Some seemed to be below as muchAs on the surface, through the touchOf sad mishaps that rudely shovedThem from positions which they loved, It was no shallow river small,But one great stream a mouth for all,Where fish that haunt the ocean bedWere in great plenty spawned and fed,And had a certain way to hideWhatever left the upper side. But haply friends were near at handWith ropes and poles to meet demand,
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THE WAY THEY CUT, AND SCORED AND SAWED. Till with a splash and scream of frightThey woke the echoes of the night. Then what cared they in such a phaseFor cooling drinks or sultry days?And for the time in every mindAll other thoughts were left behind. And scaly rogues that thought, at least,To get a snack, if not a feast,Were disappointed in their aim,And had the active friends to blame. A Brownie cried: In summers heatWe knew that fish were keen to eat, 446 THE BROWNIES ICE-HARVEST (Mar..

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