Identifier: stnicholasserial292dodg (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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t advantage, tracing out all the marcheswith atlas before him. What a new interest this country had for himnow! I saw that his trips ashore were alwaysa delight to him. He visited Lima, saw the oldchapel Pizarro built, and took an interest in theold palaces that were built by the old governor-generals when Spain ruled the country longbefore Peru became a republic. With interesthe examined the ancient pottery, and ruins ofthe old Incas, about which he talked earnestlyand intelligently. Also he read about theconquest of Chile; the wonderful march ofValdivia after that soldier left Pizarro andstarted across the Desert of Atacama. He readthe history of the west coast, of its people and I9°2-) SLUSHY, THE ROUSTABOUT. IO77 its products. On my little walks for recreation a task. On one of these walks at Coquimbo,on shore he would plead to go with me, and I Chile, I saw some pretty sea-flowers that grewcan recall his delight at my commonplace re- in the sand in a little pool among the rocks.
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zi YOU DO NOT REMEMBER ME, SIR. (SEE TAGE IO79.) marks about the peculiar condition of the vari-ous portions of the coast. It was no longer amystery to him why no rain fell in Peru, or whyit rained so much in the south. His appetitefor knowledge grew, and the study of MaurysPhysical Geography was a pleasure rather than. He was delighted when I asked him to pluckthem for me, and he was about to reach forthem when I checked him to call his attentionto the beautiful colors of salmon and pink, forthey looked like the bright corollas of some wildflower. I then told him to pull them. How 1078 SLUSHY, THE ROUSTABOUT. (Oct. surprised he looked when his first touch madethem withdraw under the sand! and he was sopleased to find they were sea-anemones—ani-mals instead of vegetables. So it was witheverything: the hermit-crab, the various shells,the differences in the color of lizards—whythey were bright and beautiful in Panama andso dull-colored in Peru. These little pointsmade him observant,

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