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Identifier: stnicholasserial71dodg (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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were rapidly drifting out into the lake,at all events, for a light wind was blowing offshore. Is the water deep? asked Uncle Liph, anx-iously. Pretty deep, around here, said Aunt Keziah;and then she shouted to the children: Sit still! All of you! Sit still. Susie was almost ready to cry when she saw hermother and the rest come running down to theshore, and she sat as still as a mouse; but Chubwas playing over the side of the boat, with his newstraw hat in the water, and Roxy had not lost aninch of her courage and confidence. She was alittle pale, but she said : It s all right, Susie. This is nt anything.Piney s coming. I wish he d come, whimpered poor Susie, forshe understood that the grown-up people were get-ting frightened about them, although she could notsee clearly that they were in any danger. Piney was coming, with Bi close behind him,and he chuckled with delight as he sprang fromthe landing into the warm, clear water. ontinued. ) 144 THE STORY OF PEGASUS. (December., 8 -\;\ -
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BELLEROPHON ON THE FLYING HORSE. i879-) THE STORY OF PEGASUS. H5 THE STORY OF PEGASUS.By M. C. When Perseus struck off the head of the terri-ble Gorgon Medusa, as described in the story ofhis life already given in St. Nicholas,* it issaid there sprang from her body a winged horse.This was the strange and beautiful animal, nowknown in mythology as Pegasus, and the ancientpoets and fable-writers told many stories concern-ing him. Hardly was the fiery creature born, when he flewup into the heavens, and there became the horseof Jupiter, for whom he carried thunder and light-ning. In course of time, however, Pegasus hada less powerful rider. A young man named Hipponous happened toslay Bellerus, a Corinthian, and on this accountwas named Bellerophon; to save his life, he tookrefuge at the court of a king named Prastus. Buthere, also, Bellerophon got into trouble, and Prae-tus sent him to Iobates, king of Lycia, with privateorders to have the young man slain at the first op-portunity. To acc

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