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Identifier: stnicholasserial4721dodg (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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sober row and toddlers last in line. With a scrape of their stools, they sate them down and read from the blessed Book, The mistress eyeing them while she spun, with ever vigilant look. Then psalms were sung and one clear note above the rest was heard. For Damaris voice went fluting up like a heavenward-soaring bird. Now take your samplers, the mistress bade, and colored silks and gay Soon threaded the canvas in and out in a quaint and devious way. The boys, meantime, were set to write in their books of the birchen bark, With goose-quills snowy, whose wide-spread nibs made a broad and spluttering mark. Small gourd-shells held their slender store of fathers home-made ink.And nobody thought of better tools and nobody stopped to think.The scholars studied all aloud with a noise like a hive of bees,But nobody minded it any more than the wind in the forest trees.An idle lad on a stool was set, with a dunce-cap on his head.And Damaris stole a fearful look and careful her lesson read. I920;
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THE TEACHER WAS NAUGHT BUT A SOBER DAME WHO STEPPED TO A SPINNERS TUNE The sand in the hour-glass slowly down had slipped on its shining way, And nowt was the time to bid good-by and nowt was the time for play. Small time had Damaris; not for her to roam in the forest wide, To hurry homeward her duty plain and busy at home to bide. But there would be welcome! Her father, grave and sober by Pilgrim rule. Would wait in the doorway to bless his maid, his Damaris home from school. THE MYSIERY OF THE SEA-LARK By RALPH HENRY BARBOUR AND H. P. HOLT Authors of Lost Island, Fortunes of War, etc. SYNOPSIS OF THE PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS Three years before the story begins, Mr. Samuel Holden is robbed of a bag of money belonging to the firm ofBarker and Holden. A gale is raging, and the thief escapes in the darkness. Simon Barker accuses Mr. Holden ofconniving at the robbery, and, to make good the loss, the latter sells his home and finds employment as a book-keeper. When the story starts. Jack Hold

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