Identifier: stnicholasserial222dodg (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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me away now, afterI ve been kept still so long, Teddy saidgravely. I came here countin on makinmoney enough every day to live on, an beganby losin my stock the first thing. You aint lost it yet. I sold every one ofyour papers, an have got the money in mypocket to give you. You re a mighty good fellow, Carrots; anif ever I can do anything to help you, I 11 beglad of the chance. All I ask is that you stand longside of mewhen Skip an his crowd come round, causeI 11 need a friend pretty bad then. He shant touch you when I m near; butI dont see how its goin to be stopped, if theyrest fellows for fightin in the city, Teddy re-plied in a tone of perplexity; and straightwaythe three were plunged into a maze of bewil-derment that the law should interfere by ar-resting a fellow when he attempted to defendhimself, and allow the beginner of the troubleto go free. It seemed to be one of those tangles in theweb woven by Justice which older heads thantheirs have failed to unravel. (To be continued.)
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By Tudor Jenks. There was once a prosperous little townthat grew up in a valley shut in by high moun-tains. A road entered the valley by a narrowrocky pass at one end, ran through the town,making the chief street, and then climbed themountains and led out of the valley again.There was no way through the valley exceptby this road. As the road was a highway between twolarge cities, the valley town became a conve-nient resting-place for traders and travelers, andprofited by their custom. Far up on one of the mountains overhangingthe valley lived a colony of dragons. Theywere very timid creatures, and, remaining amidthe rocky heights of their home, were neverseen by men. Indeed, the inhabitants of thevalley would have said there were no suchVol. XXII.—95. ; creatures in existence. But as the dragonswere not disturbed they increased in numbers,and soon found it a difficult matter to securefood. Then the stronger dragons drove theirweaker fellows away from their native places,compelling t

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