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Identifier: stnicholasserial04dodg (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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nger, and solve the doubt;But though they gazed, without wink or pause,They could not tell what the queer thing was. One said, T is only an asteroid,A bit of a planet once destroyed ; Another, A comet, for see ! he said, Its hair streams back from its fiery head. Another said, T is a new-born, star ! But the last exclaimed, What fools you aiT is only a little girl gone astray,Shot from her orbit, as I might say,Who hops and skips as she did in play.And see, she is bound for the Milky WaJ But all the others laughed him to scorn.And said, No girl that ever was bornCould move so fast oer the skys blue UfWith a skip, and a jump, and a hippety-hcI So they marked its course, and measurt speed. They traced its orbit, and found indeed.From the rate it traveled among the splpIt would reach the earth in a thousand So a thousand years must come and go,Ere she returns to the earth below;And I know, from what wise people said,Her father and mother will then be dea THE SAD STORY OF HIPPETY-HOP. 489
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THE WISE MEN BROUGHT THEIR TEIESCOPES OUT. ard is the fate of this willful girl;thousand years to skip and whirl,thousand years before she can stop 0 eat a crumb or to drink a drop. This is the story of Hippety-Hop,Who once got going and could nt stop,Until she was punished, and made to smartFor her reckless feet, and her willful heart. Vol. IV.—32. 49Q FLORIDA FISHERS. (Ih FLORIDA FISHERS.By Mrs. Mary Treat. In the retired shallow coves along the St. JohnsRiver may be seen flocks of the great blue heron.These coves are their fishing-grounds during winterand spring ; and a beautiful sight it is, when we can 1 have heard gentlemen say they could rapproach these birds near enough to study thewith any satisfaction. This makes me think trthe herons are such good observers that they kn<

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