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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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erably that, even if it was seen, thechances were that it would simply be taken asevidence that she and Jack were enjoying a larkof some kind. Their establishment consisted only of an unim-aginative hired man, a maid-servant, Christine,and their old nurse, Norah, who had long beenused to having the children, as she still calledthem, absent for hours in the wildest weather,while their father, though he was proud of andindulgent to them, seldom worried about anythingbut his own health. Indeed he had an abidingfaith in their ability to take care of themselves,which had been fully justified till now. Kathleen was at her wits end; but as sheturned, the tears running down her cheeks, to trythe poor resource of a fire, she was greeted by a :6 THROUGH THE STORM 417 gruff voice inquiring stolidly, Boy hurt? and,turning, saw an old French half-breed trapper,who had been interesting to her and Jack on ac-count of possessing the only dog-team in thatpart of the country. He had been much ridiculed
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L... , , ,. HIS HEAD MUST HAVE STRUCK A LIMB ASAND HE WAS QUITE UNCONSCIOUS. by his more advanced neighbors, who had risento the dignity of the ownership of a forlorn muleor horse, but he stubbornly clung to his primitivemeans of transportation, on the ground that, ashe did no farming, he did not need a team to plowwith, and for all other purposes preferred hisdogs. His choice seemed a peculiarly happy one in this winter of deep snow, when the heavierdraught-animals were useless, and their owners,if they wished to go abroad from their isolatedclaims, had to do so on snow-shoes or skis, seeing,perhaps, old Peter luxuriously riding over thesnow behind his light-footedteam. His name may have beenPierre to begin with. It hadbeen hardened into its presentuncompromising form by An-glo-Saxon neighbors; and,whether from the same causeor not, his disposition was asfar as possible from that ofthe lightsome voyagcitr ofsong and tale, having, in fact,reverted closely to the orig-inal Indian type.

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