Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (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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s, lis-tening. Alf, chagrined and an-gry, stood up to stepashore. But the old fel-low laid a detaining handon his sleeve. You giveshirt now. I take youMerican schooner, heproposed. Then it was that all ofAlts American indepen-dence flamed up in hisbreast. The Anglo-Sax-on has a born dislike ofbeing imposed upon, andto Alf this was sheer rob-bery ! Ten sen was equiv-alent to six Americancents, while his shirt, which was of good quality with such a crowd of wharfmen, in a big Jap-and was new, had cost him two dollars. anese city, was not as safe as it might be. He turned his back on the man without a One burly fellow, with a shock of black hairword, and went out to the end of the pier, the and ferocious eyes, came up. The rest shovedcrowd, laughing with great gusto, following at in after him to take part in the discussion,his heels. The majority of them were heavy- Give me shoes, the man said. Give meset, muscular fellows, and the July night being shoes now. I take you Merican schooner.
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HAD COLLECTED. 294 IN YEDDO BAY. Alf shook his head; whereat the crowdclamored that he accept the proposal. Nowthe Anglo-Saxon is so constituted that to brow-beat or bully him is the last way under the sunof getting him to do any certain thing. Hewill dare willingly, but he will not permit him-self to be driven. So this attempt of the boat-men to force Alf only aroused all the doggedstubbornness of his race. The same qualitieswere in him that are in men who lead forlornhopes; and there, under the stars, on the lonelypier, encircled by the jostling and shoulderinggang, he resolved that he would die rather thansubmit to the indignity of being robbed of asingle stitch of clothing. Not value, but prin-ciple, was at stake. Then somebody thrust roughly against himfrom behind. He whirled about with flashingeyes, and the circle involuntarily gave ground.But the crowd was growing more boisterous.Each and every article of clothing he had onwas demanded by one or another, and thesedemands were s

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