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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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are rightly guessed, and placed,one below another, in the order here given, the zigzag,beginning at the upper left-hand letter, will spell thename of a famous English poet and essayist. Cross-words: 1. To grieve. 2. Auctions. 3. Cer-tain raptorial birds. 4. A connected series. 5. Slow-ness. 6. A horse. 7. Spread abroad. 8. Fractions.9. A fresh-water fish. 10. To make void. 11. To bendover. 12. Trite. 13. Quality. JERSEY QUARTETTE.A LADDER PUZZLE. 12II10 24 232221 20 1918 1716 i51413 FROM I to 13, soundness of body; from 2 to 14, per-taining to a wedding; from 3 to 15, tortured ; from 4 to16, a system; from 5 to 17, a painting on plaster; from 6to 18, apoetic foot consisting of a short syllable followed bya long one ; from 7 to 19, Apollos mother ; from 8 to 20,a spice; from 9 to 21, a marine animal; from 10 to 22,an Italian patriot of the fourteenth century. Left side, reading upward, and right side reading up-ward each name a poem by Longfellow. M. b. c. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK.
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CYCLING IN BLOSSOM-TIME. ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XXV. APRIL, 1898. No. 6. THE STORY OF THE WHEEL. By Frank H. Vizetelly. For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot. Hamlet, iii. 2. It has been often said that to trace the In one of Englands older churches — St.origin of the bicycle we must go back to the Giles at Stoke Pogis — is a window of stained-beginning of the century ; and as this has not glass on which may be seen a cherub astride ofbeen denied it is probably true. I shall try to a hobby-horse, or wooden wheel. At theshow that the bicycle grew from experiments in sides, in separate panels, as if to fix the datethe fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that the of the design, stand two young men attired inCelerifere, first invented in 1690, was the earli- Puritan dress, one playing the violin, the other, est form of the safety of to-day. The first at-tempts to ride wheels date back as far as thefifteenth century. True, the machines then madewere crude, clumsy, and imperfect; yet

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