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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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he had saidMarie-Laure saw that her bagwas not finished. It neededsome more stitches, some veryimportant stitches. Could sheever get her bag back againand add these ? So while the people weresaying Bravo! Bravo! Ma-rie-Laure was not thinking ofthem at all, but was strainingfrom her grandfathers armsfor a sight of the young com-missioner, who was packingher bag away with the others. The young commissionerhad said in his address that aband of white around a flag made it a peace-flag.He held up an American flag with a band ofwhite around it, and said: The United States ofAmerica hopes for the peace of the world. Allnations must try to bring about world peace.War against the war system. War against war ! Then the people cheered again, but Marie-Laure almost cried, for she thought how muchmore beautiful her bag would be if she could puta white border on the American flag. Yes, andon the Belgian flag too ! Some weeks before, the peasant family towhich Marie-Laure belonged had been roused in
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THIS LITTLHER E GIKL HAS COME TO ASK THAT SHE MAY HAVEBAG RETURNED. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) the dead of night by the sound of an automobilewith some persons in it who had lost their way.These were soon found to be some of the officersof the American Commission for Relief in Bel-gium ; and when the household came to knowthat, they welcomed them very heartily indeed 264 MARIE-LAURE and pressed them to spend the night, urging thatit was quite too dark and rainy for them to con-tinue their journey. And it was all so wonderfulto have them under the same roof, and to seethem eat breakfast the next morning, for Marie-Laures grandmother pleaded with them to take abit of bread and coffee; and then to watchthem go off in their car with the American flagflying, the commissioners all waving their hatsin good-by; and Marie-Laures grandfather, andgrandmother, and Marie-Laure herself runningafter them and crying, Vive IAmerique ! ViveIAmerique ! Marie-Laure never could think ofit without her heart beginnin

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