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Identifier: stnicholasserial4821dodg (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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door. Then, runningback and using all theirstrength, they draggedthe man across the floor,staggered on through theever thickening smoketo the entrance, and outinto safety. A minutemore, and the cottagewas wrapped in flames.As the young heroesemerged, a hearty cheerarose. The rescuingband had come up. Theboys reeled and fell withtheir burden, but willingarms lifted them, and,with the man they hadsaved, they were carriedbeyond the danger lineand laid upon the grass by the river bank. The fresh air soon cleared their lungs, and thecousins sat up and gazed at the red glare paintingthe sky. The fire was spreading to the neigh-boring cottages, but the men were workingvigorously to check it. Come, Hal! cried Hugh. To the rescue!A Mountford and a Rolstone to the rescue! and off he shot to join the fire-fighters. Then,A Rolstone and a Mountford to the rescue!shouted Harry, darting after him; and presentlythe two were hurrying back and forth withbuckets between the burning houses and the river.
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THEY DASHED ACROSS TO THE BURNING COTTAGE An hour later, a triumphant little army marchedinto the court of Warwick Castle. Not a life hadbeen lost, every cottage but the millers had beensaved, and the band who had done such excellentservice received the praises of the Queen. Next morning at breakfast her Majesty directedthat those who had suffered loss should be amply 826 THE KNIGHTS OF THE WILD-FIRE recompensed. Moreover, she inquired what menhad done most gallantly in the battle with theflames. It was told her that among the heroeswere the Earl of Warwicks godson and anotherlad, who had saved the miller and his wife. There-upon the queen commanded that the boys bebrought into her presence. My Lord of Warwick, she said to the earl.

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