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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IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE WATERMELON STOCKINGS. By Alice Caldwell Hegan. (Author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.)
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mazin grace slept peacefully. Jes look at dat ornery little nigger! ex-claimed Aunt Melvy, as she deposited a basketof clothes on the cabin floor. I lef her toclean up, an to put de taters on to bile, an toshoo de flies offen de twinses, an I wisht you dlook at her! p Nell Tracy, who had come down with AuntMelvy from the big house on the hill, viewedthe culprit ruefully. Mazin Grace was AuntMelvys eighth daughter, and had been namedfor her mothers favorite hymn, which began Amazing grace, how sweet the sound. Shewas very short and very fat, and her kinky hairwas plaited into ten tight pigtails, each ofwhich was bound with a piece of leather shoe- string. At present she sat with her backpropped against the door, her mouth wide open,and slept peacefully while the flood of hermothers wrath passed over her. Oh, but, Aunt Melvy, wont you please lether come ? begged Nell, throwing off her sun-bonnet and letting down a tangle of yellowcurls. I have nt got anybody to play withme. Mother drove

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