Identifier: stnicholasserial322dodg (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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AFRICAN CARRIERS OF IVORY. and her earnings, a small fee for each parcel,served to support herself and her two invaliddaughters, who could do only a little sewing.The old woman would allow no one to pityher; she liked the work, she said, and wasonly sorry that as she grew older she could notmake such frequent trips, for her earnings werehelping herself and her children. So, you see, there are all manners of queercarriers and burden-bearers in the world, fromthat fleetest of postmen, the carrier-pigeon,which takes a message through the air forhundreds of miles with the speed of an expresstrain, down to the locomotive, the bicycle, thetrolley-car, and the automobile, which oncewould have been considered queer carriers indeed, but that time is now long past. FAMILIAR QUEER CARRIERS: THE SPRING MANEUVERS OF THE AWKWARD SQUAD.
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-#c Talbot The little Kangaroo (If this story is quite true)Could not be made to bathe him in the river. He said he never yet Saw water quite so wet —The mere suggestion made him shake and shiver! His mother said, Absurd ! You re a ninny, on my word !What well-bred jungle creature would act so ? The little Elephants Are glad to have the chance —Their bath is just a frolic, as you know. The little Barbary ApeDoes not try to escape When threatened with cold water and the soap;The Hippo-potamussesDont make such awful fusses, Nor the Jaguar, nor the little Antelope. The mild, obedient YakWould never answer back,Nor does the Rhino-cino-roarer-horsejAnd the baby Crocodile —Why, the water makes him smile;And he takes his daily plunges as of course.632 THE WILFUL KANGAROO. 633 n¥l I I IPlffffilw

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