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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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A MERCHANT OF THE PAVEMENT —THE OLD MAN WITH THE MECHANICAL TOYS. 335
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ALLIGATOR HUNTING. By Frank R. Stockton. Charles and Stephen Morris had an unclewho was a sportsman. Uncle Weston, asthey called him, had hunted in all parts of thecountry — on our Atlantic bays and gulfs, inthe woods of Maine, in the far West, andin Texas and Florida. It was a glad timefor Charles and Stephen when they could getUncle Weston to tell about his expeditions. At one time the boys were especially inter-ested in alligators, a friend traveling in Floridahaving sent them a little live alligator in a box.This creature was about eight inches long, and af-forded much amusement to Stephen and Charles,but he did not satisfy them. They wished toknow all about the big fellows — the ones thatcould bite a mans leg off or devour a pig. One day they found Uncle AVeston sitting ona bench under a tree; and, clambering up oneach side of him, they asked him to tell themabout all the alligators he had ever seen, andanything he had heard or read about alligators. That would take a long ti

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