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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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illage. In spite of the fact that she called the officerCaptain, a name that always pleased him, hereplied: Sorry, Mrs. Moran, but I have nt anyauthority to take your pig. He is nt a criminal,I aint running an animal pound, and there is ntany law about stray pigs. They belong to theirowners, and you re the nearest to an owner ofthis pig. You re in loco parens, as we say incourt, and you 11 have to keep him. With a heavy heart, the widow told Tony that,for all she could see, they would have Persy ontheir hands for the rest of his life. But Tony suggested that if the pig ran away from them, it would be no fault of theirs; and ifthey helped him to run away, would it be so verydifferent? They talked it over, and it ended in adecision to turn Persy loose after every one was inbed. That very night, Tony drove him down theroad to the end of the village. But the first thinghe heard in the morning was Persy at the gate,squealing for his breakfast. The next night, Tony took the pig in the other
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THAT NIGHT TONY TRIED TO LOSE HIM FOR THE THIRD TIME that we ve made into direction and turned him loose again, and in themorning there was no Persy at the gate. But atnoon there was Captain Daily pounding at thedoor, with one end of a rope in his hand, and, atthe other end of the rope, the hungry Persy tiedby a leg. Your pig ran away, maam, said Daily, andhere he is. They dared not admit that they were trying tolose Persy, after what the officer had told themtwo days before, so they took the pig back andthanked Daily. One more day they fed Persy.That night Tony took him out and turned himloose for the third time, farther away than pre-viously. If he comes back this time, saidTonys mother, I 11 believe it s fate decreeingthat we shall feed Persy if we starve doing it. The next forenoon went by and no Persy ap-peared, and the widow and Tony began to breathefreely again. Nixie alone seemed anxious andran about the yard, peering into the corner wherePersy had rooted up the sod and destro

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