Identifier: stnicholasserial371dodg (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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and feet, which wereheavy and slow in dressing and frequentlyVol. XXXVII. -3. stopped to play. The Junior Partner had verylittle control over them. Two stockings and twoshoes added together make a great many, itseems, when one has the dawdles. The Senior Partner examined the Junior Part-ners brain with the Q-ray spectacles which hehas invented, and found that it was the seat ofthe trouble. Sure enough! There were dawdlesrunning all through the brain and carrying off thethoughts. When a shoe-lace thought or a tooth-brush thought came into the brain, those miser-able dawdles would whisk it away, and, of course,the Junior Partner could not do a thing but waituntil the thought came back. This took a lot oftime. Q-rays are much more wonderful than X-rays.X-rays show only solid things, such as bones orneedles or bullets, which you could see withoutthe rays if the things were not covered up; but bythe Q-rays the Senior Partner could see thingssuch as dawdles and thoughts, that are invisible,
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THE GREEN AND YELLOW CHINA PIG, IN WHICH THEJUNIOR PARTNER KEPT HIS MONEY. even to the X-rays. And the beauty of theQ-rays is that when they show anything no onecan contradict them and prove that it is not there.The Senior Partner has seen many strange things 18 DAWDLES with his Q-ray spectacles. They were named Q-ray spectacles just because they showed suchcu-ray-ious things! After a careful examination, the Senior Part-ner decided that the Junior Partner needed astimulant or, rather, a combination of stimulants.People generally expect more than one medicine. Money has always been known to be a strongstimulant. To many people it is the strongestpossible. Like every other powerful remedy it isan excellent medicine if properly used in theproper case, but very injurious when wrongly ap-plied. People easily get to like it and have acraving for it which they can never satisfy andnever get over. They seem to care for nothingelse, and will do almost anything to get it. Noother medicine has

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