St. Nicholas, Volume 19, Part 2Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1892 |
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ACROSTIC Amanda answered asked beautiful began black buck Bobby boys BRANDER MATTHEWS called Captain Charlie Christmas Cissy Smith Columbus Corkscrew Cotgrave cried CROSS-WORDS dancing dark DEAR ST door Dorothy eikonogen eyes F'liciano face Fairleigh father feet flag formicarium friends glad hand Harry Zachary head hear heard Helen horse hydraulic mining Indians Jack Julia JULIA WARD Kahp-too-oo-yoo king knew laughed Leslie letters live looked Lott lovely Mama Mildred Mildred's MONTEZUMA'S CASTLE morning mother Muley Hassan never NICHOLAS night once papa Paulding play President Carnot pretty Rangoon Rapallo ready replied ride rock round seemed side sister smiling soldiers soon stood story sure Syncopate talk tell things thought thousand guineas told Tommy took tree turned Uncle Dick Vaca walked words young
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Page 504 - I STUDIED my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too; But I couldn't remember six times nine, and I didn't know what to do, Till sister told me to play with my doll, and not to bother my head. "If you call her 'Fifty-four' for a while, you'll learn it by heart," she said. So I took my favorite, Mary Ann (though I thought 'twas a dreadful shame To give such a perfectly lovely child such a perfectly horrid name), And I called her my dear little "Fifty-four...
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