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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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life of herding. But as Giotto looked at thewhite-fleeced sheep aroundhim, and then at the villagebelow, he thought differ-ently. He saw his grand-father, too old to follow aherd now, laughing withsome of the children, as ifall the world were glad, andhis sister Teresa, dark-eyedand graceful, go singing intothe hut where his grand-mother sat spinning. Justbeyond, white-haired Ar-mando, bent and feeble too,hobbled along on his stick. slopes that Pasquali was so eager to leave werehome to Giotto. He was born in a hut below,and, as far back as his memory went, could lookout of its northern window on the Apennines.And there had always been the music of theMugone stream, now yellow and muddy, now
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beckoning and smiling tothose who hailed him as he passed, while gay young Serafino, who hadbroken a leg a fortnight before while rescuing alamb from a precipice, was taking the sun andtrying to gain strength to go back to his flock.Shepherd folk all were they, and there were nomerrier hearts in Tuscany. So if those could behappy who had never seen the city except asthey looked down on its gleaming towers fromthe hills where they pastured their flocks, it didnt seem a bad life after all. The ilex-tufted HE POINTIID DOWN TO WHERE FLORENCE LAV BI-MUIC THE ARNO. shinunering like a silver ribbon flung down fromthe peaks, as it hurried away to join the Arno.Pasquali was an orphan, and had lived in manyplaces, one of which was as dear as another.But to the boy who had never been beyond thegrazing lands, there was only one home spot,and that was in Vespignano. Why, then, shouldhe leave it for a place where he would be friend-less and might perhaps have to go hungry? Andthat question he put t

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