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Identifier: stnicholasserial292dodg (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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TRING. how slow they were in starting! At last the sig-nal was given which sent the Celestials off, andthen what a lot of bowing and scraping therewas! They bowed to the right, they bowed tothe left, and then they bowed backward and for-ward. They shook their large sleeves and flungout their long queues, and glided up into spacewith all the elegance born of their Eastern civ-ilization, so many dim and dusty centuries old. When an altitude of such height had beenreached that one might easily imagine the China-men to be looking into their own beautifulFlowery Kingdom, there was a thrilling scenewhich made every patriots heart jump for joyand pride. How or why or where none knew, but beforeany one realized what was happening, an armyof American flags rose through the heavens as 824 A CIRCUS ON A KITE-STRING. (July, if in pursuit of the barbarian horde,instant all was babel and confusion. In an Every bright Yankee boy may have a circusThe of his own by carefully studying the illustrations
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1 ll WITH OLD GLORY crowds danced and shouted. They seized ban-ners and bunting and umbrellas and windmills,and waved them like mad. Strains of MyCountry arose on the air, and as the shadowsof evening crept oer the cool earth, it butheightened the brilliancy of a magnificent skyablaze with the hues of Old Glory. printed with this article and the directionsgiven below. SAILING A FLAG TO THE SKIES.The disks are of cardboard, in the center of which isinserted a spool. The light stick from which the flagis suspended is fastened to the ends of the spoolswhere these project inwardly beyond the disks. 1902.) Thi A CIRCUS ON A PARACHUTES. KITE-STRING. 825 THE GIANT WHIRLER. The parachutes are made of square pieces of coloredtissue-paper, and to each a small cardboard figure is at-tached. A small twist is taken in the top of the para- This is made of light sticks, wrapping-paper, andstring. The picture shows exactly how these are puttogether. Decorate with long streamers and varicol-ored tissu

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