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Identifier: stnicholasserial71dodg (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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up, and, shouting that he was umpire no longer,rushed after them. They reached the goal, but could not stop, for 98 FABLES. (December, old Wind was behind them, and the Trees, andthe Birds, and the very Air, shouted: He s mad ! he s mad ! ! ****** Little Ted Williams sat on a flower-pot, makinga jolly mud-pie, when he chanced to look up, andlo ! in the distance he saw a great heap of Leavesblown by the Wind. As they passed him he caught the foremost of them,—a deep-red oak-leaf,—andput it in his hat. His mother said the color of itwas maroon, the fashionable shade this winter;but nobody heard the Birds and the Flowers sayto a little gray squirrel, who was sitting on therail fence: Old Oaks daughter won the race, after all.Just let your cousin know, will you ? FABLES.By Howard Pyle.
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A PERSON OF CONSEQUENCE, CAREFULLY FED AND ATTENDED TO. The Pig and the Rat. A PIG, so fat that it could hardly move, oncelolling indolently in its sty, saw a poor, half-starvedrat, that, with much timid alertness, stole from itshiding-place, and after seizing one of the manygrains of corn that lay scattered around, quicklyescaped with his prize, and with very much the airof a beggar who had asked for something to eat,and had then run away, ashamed to be seen. You poor creature, grunted the pig, whata life you lead ; half starved and half frozen ! Be-hold me now ! Here I am,—a person of conse-quence, carefully fed and attended to, with everymorning fresh, sweet straw thrown to me to makemy bed soft and warm. As for you, poor creat- ure, it is only at the risk of your life, by constantlabor and struggles with your fellow-creatures, andeven by beggary, to speak of nothing worse, thatyou can contrive to live at all. Please to recollect, said the rat, as he pausedfor a moment at the mou

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