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Page 4
When they some trouble found a situation in New York , and were boys at Eton ,
they were not popular ... He had a small was constantly disappointed and
humiliated by house on a quiet street , and his little boy was them ; his heir was
no ...
When they some trouble found a situation in New York , and were boys at Eton ,
they were not popular ... He had a small was constantly disappointed and
humiliated by house on a quiet street , and his little boy was them ; his heir was
no ...
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De gem - the missing boy . He found him in the grove beman hisself done sit on
de fence in de br ' ilin ' sun , hind the cottage , playing with Rupert . Thaddy a -
takin ' of dem off wiv his pencil , an ' de leetle gal was silent and ashamed under ...
De gem - the missing boy . He found him in the grove beman hisself done sit on
de fence in de br ' ilin ' sun , hind the cottage , playing with Rupert . Thaddy a -
takin ' of dem off wiv his pencil , an ' de leetle gal was silent and ashamed under ...
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Suddenly as she slowly walked down the yellow path from a cry was heard , and
on the farther side of the sea the hill . One was a golden boy , with a beaming up
rose a beautiful white figure . It waved its hand face ; the other a little girl in a ...
Suddenly as she slowly walked down the yellow path from a cry was heard , and
on the farther side of the sea the hill . One was a golden boy , with a beaming up
rose a beautiful white figure . It waved its hand face ; the other a little girl in a ...
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Nip ” and “ Tuck , ” two rather unpretentious - looking donkeys , were tethered on
a small green plateau just below ; while the boys , with a fine setter crouching
behind them , lay on the border of a marsh with their fowling - pieces leveled at a
...
Nip ” and “ Tuck , ” two rather unpretentious - looking donkeys , were tethered on
a small green plateau just below ; while the boys , with a fine setter crouching
behind them , lay on the border of a marsh with their fowling - pieces leveled at a
...
Page 57
He told of dog , the donkeys , and the birds , the boys sang its theater which
seated more than fifty thousand with a rollicking vehemence that might - - or
might people , and its stadium , or race - course , where footnot — have called
forth a ...
He told of dog , the donkeys , and the birds , the boys sang its theater which
seated more than fifty thousand with a rollicking vehemence that might - - or
might people , and its stadium , or race - course , where footnot — have called
forth a ...
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Page 437 - The General, before they met in council, asked my private opinion concerning the expedition. I urged him, in the warmest terms I was able, to push forward, if he even did it with a small but chosen band, with such artillery and light stores as were necessary ; leaving the heavy artillery, baggage, and the like with the rear division of the army, to follow by slow and easy marches, which they might do safely while we were advanced in front.
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| Title | St. Nicholas, Volume 13, Part 1 Volumes 591-599 of American periodical series, 1850-1900 |
| Contributor | Mary Mapes Dodge |
| Publisher | Scribner, 1886 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2007 |
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