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Identifier: stnicholasserial372dodg (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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nning, and then he dis-appeared. Now, Dorothy, said Betty, restored to equa-nimity, now that the box was finally disposed of,let us go and sit down quietly somewhere, andI 11 tell you all about it. Do! cried Fred Bates. You re the mostmysterious person I ever heard of, Miss McGuire !Come right up to our family sitting-room and re-late to us the story of the Beautiful Young Ladyand her Strange Piece of Luggage! Very well, said Betty, dimpling and smiling.Come on, and the whole of the dramatic tale Iwill unfold! Which she did, to a most enthusiastic andhilarious audience. A FRIEND OF CHILDREN AND OF DOGS BY ROSSITER JOHNSON September 23, 1810, a boy was born in Biggar,Lanarkshire, Scotland, who received the name ofJohn Brown. The reason he was so named wasthat four of his direct ancestors had borne the there is no danger of his being confounded withany of them. His father, a clergyman, gave himhis earliest education, and in his twelfth year hewas sent to school in Edinburgh, twenty-five
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DR. JOHN BROWN AND RAB. same name. That was the best possible reasonwhy he should have received some other name;but such repetition is to be expected in any coun-try where the family and the estate are consid-ered of more importance than the individual. Sev-eral of these ancestors were eminent in their day;but they would hardly be remembered now wereit not for their more illustrious descendant, andVol. XXXVII.-127. miles away. Here he finished by studying medi-cine, and at the age of twenty-three he beganpractice, in that city, which he continued to theend of his life in 1882. One who was his schoolmate records somepleasant recollections of him: I first met him ata boys and girls party, where he made us alllaugh by some outbreak of odd or funny remark 1010 A FRIEND OF CHILDREN AND OF DOGS — so that his humor had begun to show itself eventhen. When he came among us, some of usboys were inclined to smile at his simple, primi-tive, country ways and appearance. I rememberparticularly hi

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