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Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (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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aveto have some of the men in to help us get thatcap out. Miss Hitty, you re a wonder! cried Peg.We 11 get the Schmucks. They 11 do anythingin the world for us. I 11 call them. 834 THE LUCK OF DENEWOOD (July She ran off, leaving the others to speculate uponfinding the sixpence and to admire Miss Hittyscleverness, although they had little chance to sayanything, the old seamstress having an audienceto her liking, and improving the opportunity todo the talking. At one point, however, Beatrice broke in uponher volubility. Tell me, please, do you knowhow she die, that great little ancient Beatrice? What further she might have said was inter-rupted by Pegs reentrance with the twoSchmucks. They were so-called handy menabout the place, and lived in small cottages over-looking the Denewood grounds. In Revolution-ary times, the Jack Travers of that day had be-friended an ancestor of the Schmucks; andthroughout the years that followed, successivegenerations of their family had lived at Denewood,
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I M GUESSING YOU RE AFTER THE OTHER BIT OF THAT SIXPENCE she asked, nodding toward the portrait thatseemed to smile encouragingly upon them. I know that she lived to be very old. MissHitty spoke musingly; then after a momentspause, her well-stored memory awakened. Iremember! I remember! she went on. Mygrandma said that when Miss Pegs own grandmadied (quite a young woman she was, too), thatshe passed away suddenly in her sleep, just likeold Lady Travers had done before her. (OldLady Travers is what every one called her, thoughit does nt seem possible that the girl whose por-trait we re looking at should ever have grown old.But she did.) They said, though, that she neverhad a days illness in her life, and just went toHeaven in her sleep, like. Oh! exclaimed Be, now I understan every-thing! That explain why she never wrote aboutwhere the sixpence was in her book. I think itwas a so beautiful end to a appy life. content to serve and maintaining a fine sense ofgratitude. Now, although they

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