Identifier: stnicholasserial332dodg (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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e port side, Billie saidquietly. Keep at least ten feet astern or some-thing might happen. Then to make somethinghappen he pulled in hard on the rope and therefollowed a mighty upheaval of the waters. The professor stood up aghast until the strug-gles ceased, then he gazed into the sea and thenext moment was prancing about like a mad man. Oh ! Oh ! Hardy, Hardy ! Look, will you.Look! The pirate of the ocean ! Nothing be-neath the waters can withstand it! Fish ofevery description flee before it as do the animalsof the jungle before the jaguar! It s a kingkiller-whale! Oh, what a rare specimen it is!Twenty feet in length at least! Boy, how muchwill you take for it? he called eagerly. Three hundred dollars, Billie hazarded theamount of his parents indebtedness, being natur-ally the first figure to come into his mind. Then it is mine! the professor fairly shouted.Mine, mine! I shall myself mount it, and whatan addition it will be to my labora— Hold on, professor, it is nt yours yet, the
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I WILL HANG ON, THE BOY EXCLAIMED DETERMINEDLY. 583 584 THE YOUNG NETTERS (May, lawyer broke in quietly. You ve got to makefast to it first. Run alongside again, will you, soI can get into that dory with my young friend;then you go back to the Nettie Ann and get what-ever tackle you think you will need. The excited professor was already again amid-ship and as his companion stepped into the dory,he speeded away the launch at a terrific pace. Going forward, Mr. Hardy leaned over theboys shoulder and said kindly, What- a nightyou ve had of it, Billie, but your work is almostover, this king of the sea is all but exhaustednow, I take it! This all proves you possess oneexcellent trait in your make-up. Do you knowwhat I mean ? No, sir, what? Billie mumbled from betweenset teeth, for his heart was a bit bitter toward thisman, for was nt he going to take away the sloopfrom his father? How could he but be bitter? Unheeding his tone the lawyer answered gently:Perseverance! You are not the boy to

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