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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (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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rtin fire andbrimstone out of his nostrils,and puffin out black smoke allround, and pantin, and heavin,and swellin, and chawin up redhot coals like they was good. Afeller stood in a little house like,feedin him all the time; butthe more he got, the more hewanted, and the more he blowedand snorted. After a spell thefeller ketched him by the tail,and great Jericho ! he set up ajell that split the ground formore n a mile and a half, andthe next minit I felt my legs awaggin, and found myself att other end of the string o\ehickles. I was nt skeered,but I had three chills and astroke of palsy in less than fiveminutes, and my face had acurus brownish-yaller-green-bluish colorwas perfectly unaccountable. Well, sayis super-flu-ous. are but two of them. Snodgrass seems to havefound them hard work, for it is said he raisedon the price, which fortunately brought theseries to a close. Their value to-day lies inthe fact that they are the earliest of MarkTwains newspaper contributions that have been
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A MUSIC-MASTER ON THE FLOOR BEI.OW DID NOT CARE FOR THESE CONCERTS. I, it, whichcomment How Samuel Clemens could have written that,and worse, at twenty-one, and a little more thanten years later have written The InnocentsAbroad is one of the mysteries of literature.The letters were signed Snodgrass, and there preserved —the first for which he received a cashreturn. Sam remained in Cincinnati until April of thefollowing year, 1857, working for Wrightson andCompany, general printers, lodging in a cheapboarding-house, saving every possible penny forhis great adventure. He had one associate at the boarding-house, a 216 THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN (Jan., lank, unsmiling Scotchman named Macfarlane,twice young Clemenss age, and a good deal ofa mystery. Sam never could find out what Mac-farlane did. His hands were hardened by somesort of heavy labor—he left at six in the morn-ing and returned in the evening at the same hour.He never mentioned his work, and young Clem-ens had the delicacy

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