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Image from page 126 of “St. Nicholas [serial]” (1873)
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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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onderment rife, And there, serenely shading his eyes, They followed the Dominies provident wife With a questioning look of pleased surprise, Bewailing a husband who traveled like that Stood Dominie Brown for all to see. In his every-day coat and his garden hat! Now welcome to you, kind friends ! quoth he. Back where the Dominies lands begunThey bore her company every one,Condoling her care and her desolate state,Till they came in sight of her garden gate. : So fine a season it is for a stroll,I too have refreshed my body and soul,And have been to see — he nodded his headTo the hill round which they late had sped— I894-] HOW THE DOMINIE WENT TO SEA. 113 To see if yon path, if I followed it straight,Would bring me around to my garden gate.And it did! The Dominie nodded andsmiled, But nobody smiled and nobody stirred;Only the Dominies wife was heard,Her eyes they flashed and she spake mosttrue — While contentment shone in his blue eyes mild. One never knows what such a man will do!
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Vol. XXII.—15 —16. A BOY OF THE FIRST EMPIRE. By Eleridge S. Brooks. [Begun in the November number. ] Chapter III. THE SCHOOL-BOY OF ST. CYR. He found out speedily. As they passedfrom the Street of the Washerwomen into theStreet of the Night Patrol, and so on besidethe ruins of the great castle, Philip thoughtthey were taking him to the office of the chiefof police in the splendid City Hall; but, pass-ing the Square of the River Beach, upon whichfaced the statued front of the City Hall, theboys conductors pushed ahead without stop-ping, cut across into the long Street of theTemple, and as before them loomed the fourgray turrets and the great central tower, Philipknew his destination to be the gloomy oldTemple itself—the death-chamber of knightsand kings. Come, now, this is pleasant! he said tohimself, wondering why they should take himthere. What am I, then ? He who picks apocket or steals a ride is surely too small gamefor the Temple. It is there they take traitorsand assassins
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