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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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hakspere with great animation. Hou-gua was smiling blandly upon one and all;and the executioner sat bolt upright, his eyesglaring frightfully through his mask. How are you getting along, good people ? asked Mme. Tussaud, letting the light of thebulls-eye lamp travel from one to another. Bully ! said Tom Thumb, briskly. Ifyou find it cold outside, there s plenty of roomfor you and the little girl in here. We are quite comfortable on the box-seat,thank you, Tom. I trust your Majesty doesnot feel wearied. We are well bestowed, said Queen Eliza-beth, with a gracious inclination of her head. Thou hast given us an agreeable henchman.Raleigh himself was not a more accomplishedcourtier, and knew less of Sweet Will than Tomof the Thumb. She turned to the little man. Who spake those words of our poet, Tom of theThumb, which but now thou wast repeating ? They were from Suffolks lines, answeredTom Thumb, when he was playing false toHenry VI, in his interview with Lady Margaret.Dont you remember ?
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THOU HAST NOT MANY INCHES,* SAID QUEEN ELIZABETH, BUT THOU ARTA MARVELOUS PROPER MAN. 148 A COMEDY IN WAX. I49 Ha! those knavish ambassadors! ex-claimed Queen Elizabeth. We have hadexperience of them. We recall the lines — theyare in our poets play of Henry VI. But thymemory is prodigious, gallant Tom of theThumb; marvelous is thy erudition. Fainwould our eyes rest upon the wonderful countryin which thou wert bora and educated. In education it takes the cake, queen, saidTom Thumb, and a visit from you would setall the bells ringing from Maine to California.You are as greatly honored there as in the citiesand green lanes of England. From our green lanes, sweet and fragrantas they will ever be, we send it greeting. Werecollect our sea-dog Sir Francis Drake, whenwe visited him upon his ship, the GoldenHind, speaking in glowing terms of those won-drous western shores, upon some spot of whichhe unfurled our flag, calling the land NewAlbion. But let us not desert the pages ofour Swan of A

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