St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Volume 55Scribner & Company, 1928 - Children's periodicals |
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... wonderful Ameri- can institutions . You can buy a Rolls Royce , I believe , for a dol- lar down and a dollar a week , if you live long enough . But I never heard it explained how you can drive it if you haven't any clothes . " " I know ...
... wonderful Ameri- can institutions . You can buy a Rolls Royce , I believe , for a dol- lar down and a dollar a week , if you live long enough . But I never heard it explained how you can drive it if you haven't any clothes . " " I know ...
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... wonderful ! " said Rosemary . " I'm so glad there aren't any other houses around . I love it wild and uncivilized . " " Oh , but really , you know , there are a number of cottages around the point there in Ojibwa Bay , " said Miss ...
... wonderful ! " said Rosemary . " I'm so glad there aren't any other houses around . I love it wild and uncivilized . " " Oh , but really , you know , there are a number of cottages around the point there in Ojibwa Bay , " said Miss ...
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... wonderful and lonely experience , to- gether with a foreword and Major Rothesay Stuart - Wortley , I thought how I was go- ing to recommend the book to all boys inter- ested in a serious , technical way in avia- tion . It abounds in ...
... wonderful and lonely experience , to- gether with a foreword and Major Rothesay Stuart - Wortley , I thought how I was go- ing to recommend the book to all boys inter- ested in a serious , technical way in avia- tion . It abounds in ...
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... wonderful models . The monument is the next highest to Washington Monument . It is very easy to climb because there is a gradually sloping runway to the top . This runway was copied from some tower in Europe . A boat from Boston to ...
... wonderful models . The monument is the next highest to Washington Monument . It is very easy to climb because there is a gradually sloping runway to the top . This runway was copied from some tower in Europe . A boat from Boston to ...
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... wonderful to be home again after the 3,000 mile tour . Hurrah for the United States ! Hurrah for the St. Nicholas Magazine ! Three cheers for the League ! HELEN J. NOEL ( AGE 15 ) . P. S. I saw Old Ironsides being re- paired at the ...
... wonderful to be home again after the 3,000 mile tour . Hurrah for the United States ! Hurrah for the St. Nicholas Magazine ! Three cheers for the League ! HELEN J. NOEL ( AGE 15 ) . P. S. I saw Old Ironsides being re- paired at the ...
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Page 207 - and that the following Is, to the beat of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and If a dally paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown In the above caption, required by the Act of August 24. 1912. embodied In section 443, Postal LAWS and Regulations, printed on the
Page 207 - 2. That the owners are: (Give name and addresses of Individual owners, or. If a corporation, give Its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.) Owners,
Page 252 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on
Page 119 - For the beauty of the earth, For the beauty of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and above us lies, Lord of all, to thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.
Page 433 - discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof and occupies the same, such
Page 317 - The commissariat failed miserably, perhaps dishonestly, to relieve the desperate want. Two days before Christmas there was "not a single hoof of any kind to slaughter, and not more than twenty-five barrels of flour." Men died by the score from starvation.
Page 414 - For my part, I like a good hearty funeral as well as anything. You've as splendid victuals and drink as at other parties, and even better, and it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor feller's ways, as it do to stand up in
Page 463 - A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor; On this scene enter—winged, horned, and spined— A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore; While 'mid my page there idly stands A sleepy fly that rubs its hands.
Page 318 - Smoke. What have you got for Breakfast, Lads? 'Fire Cake and Water, Sir.' The Lord send that our Commissary of Purchases may live on Fire Cake & Water till their glutted Gutts are turned to Pasteboard." He admonishes: "Ye who Eat Pumpkin Pie and Roast Turkies— and yet Curse fortune for using you ill—Curse her no more—least she reduce
Page 414 - She must know by this time whether she's to go up or down, poor woman." "What was her age?" "Not more than seven or eight and twenty, by candle-light. But Lord! by day 'a was forty if 'a were an hour." "Ay, night-time or day-time makes a difference of twenty years to rich feymels,