Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (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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before him in blank bewil-derment, and Miss Pennyback continued: This is a strange sight that we behold. Iperceive that that immensely tall man has comedown from the cedar-tree, and is now engagedin conversation with that little old woman inblack. There is no doubt that we are awake, MissPennyback? It does not admit of doubt, sir. You useda word which appears to me appropriate towhat we have gone through, and to what weare at present witnessing. I have no recollection of any word, saidMr. Scarlett, rubbing his brow in a vacant 506 A COMEDY IN WAX. 507 manner. So far as I am aware, I have no with Miss Lydia is the great King Henry VIII recollection of anything in particular. come to life again—if such a thing can be. And The word I refer to, sir, is enchantment. surely I recognize the great and good Queen We are not under the spell of a delusion : we are Elizabeth. I perceive also a personage who the victims of an enchantment, and theArabian bears a remarkable likeness to Guy Fawkes,
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all the celebrities were there with the exception of the headsman. Nights comes irresistibly to my mind. In thedrama that is being enacted on the lawn wehave no part; we are, as it were, the audience.Lucy is seemingly employing herself in theceremony of introducing Miss Lydia to herfriends. For friends they undoubtedly are, orshe would not be on smiling terms with them.The regal gentleman who is shaking hands and an exceedingly small but very active in-dividual. The Little Old Woman in Black isthe busiest of the party, and seems to be theruling spirit. And there! do you perceive, sir,there come all your domestics,—Molly, Maria,Belinda, Mrs. Peckham, Rowley, and Flip,—and that some communication is passing be-tween them and the little old woman? 5°8 A COMEDY IN WAX. (April, The servants do not seem to be frightened,Miss Pennyback. They do not, sir, though I detect an ex-pression of anxiety on Mrs. Peckhams counte-nance. And, I declare, there is Belinda talkingto that abnormally ta

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