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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (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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uld peer into a window of thelittle house. A mother sat by a table sewing. Anna Belle .skilfully painted a face, then tied a trim littlebonnet about it, and behold, there was a smilingbit of a creature awaiting the next move. She then made for it petticoat, dress, and coat,and stood it in a corner while she fashioned an-other. As she worked, she smiled so sweetly thewhole room seemed aglow. Come and see whom they are for, whisperedthe Fairy. Anna Belle followed and peeped into an upperwindow. There she saw a number of little chil-dren all snuggled up fast asleep.. Look! whispered the Fairy, and pointed toa stand upon which stood a pincushion made ofbits of ribbon from a scrap-bag and a work-boxfashioned from a cigar-box. Pockets had beentacked inside, and on the bottom of the box laya spool of thread. Looks lonesome, does nt it? whispered theFairy. Anna Belle nodded as she thought of her ownbeautiful work-box of carved ivory, with a goldthimble and all sorts of exquisite fittings. And
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watched her and saw that she was making dolls then .she remembered another laid away in the from bottles. attic, one of the things she did nt want. She fashioned heads by placing a wad of cot- The two crude gifts on the little table were ton in a piece of muslin. Giving the cloth a marked in a childish hand, For Mother with twist, she had a perfect round ball, which she much love. shaped and tied down over a cork. On this she Love is sticking out all over those things, 142 ANNA BELLES CHRISTMAS EVE (Dec, said the Fairy. Come down and see how she isgetting on with her bottle family. They went below to find the dolls nearly fin-ished, and a fine ready-made family it was. Father, mother, children —and even a weenty,teenty pill-bottle doll, dressed as a baby in longclothes, was pinned to the mother, the tiny headnestling close to where her heart should be. They are lovely! declared Anna Belle. They are, indeed, and they can do what manyof the finest dolls you buy cannot. They canstand,

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