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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waspresented to him heremembered that hehad had no dinner theday before, nor break-fast that morning. He hotter, and the cloud still melted away beforeit. Dumpling felt himself rapidly sinking.He tried to hold to the last lump of cloud,but it vanished in his arms. He shut his eyes,for he knew that now he was lost. Down,down he rushed through the air. Thud! He forgot everybody in hishunger, and ate until he could eat no more, forDumpling always had a good appetite. Andthose who watched him said to one anotherthat he must be a god, for no mere humanbeing could eat so much. Next he looked about him. What strange 1902.) DUMPLING S WONDERFUL VOYAGE. II23 men these were! He had never seen any such Child of the Sun. Dumpling was carried to before. He would have been afraid, but he saw the temple on a golden throne, while all the thattheyseemed to fear him. This gave him cour- populace of the city fell down on their faces age. I wonder if I m in China, he thought, as he was borne before them.
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THEY prostrated themselves at his feet. He asked where he was, but of course theycould not understand him. They are Chinamen, he thought. He is a god, they thought. He speaksa celestial language which we do not know. And again they bowed down before him. Dumpling had fallen through the roof of theprinces palace. To every one of course itwas evident that he had come straight fromheaven; they knew well that no ordinary per-son lived in the clouds. The prince gave uphis best throne to him : so overcome was he bythis great honor that the gods had done him. Messengers were sent running through thecity to announce the wonderful event; andsoon the people came in multitudes to see the Dumpling thought they looked very funnywith their smooth-shaved heads and long pig-tails of hair hanging down their backs. Andtheir eyes, too, were queer, running up at thecorners. And they wore strange shoes andstrange clothes. It all looked very funny tohim. When he smiled at them the peopleshouted in their jo

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