St. Nicholas, Volume 29Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner, 1902 |
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Page 21
... soon had his face and hands covered with lather . It was no slight task to cleanse the dust from the skin , for it seemed to creep into every crevice and to cling there with such tenacious grip that it became almost a part of the skin ...
... soon had his face and hands covered with lather . It was no slight task to cleanse the dust from the skin , for it seemed to creep into every crevice and to cling there with such tenacious grip that it became almost a part of the skin ...
Page 22
... soon on the table , a lamp , whose lighting had been deferred to the last moment for the sake of economy , was placed in the middle of the board , and Mrs. Remington , finding that her remarks upon his delay met with no response , sat ...
... soon on the table , a lamp , whose lighting had been deferred to the last moment for the sake of economy , was placed in the middle of the board , and Mrs. Remington , finding that her remarks upon his delay met with no response , sat ...
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... soon as he had eaten his breakfast , he climbed high up on the hillside to his favorite nook , with only " Lorna Doone " for company . There , in a grassy spot , he lay down and opened the book before him . He read it stumblingly and ...
... soon as he had eaten his breakfast , he climbed high up on the hillside to his favorite nook , with only " Lorna Doone " for company . There , in a grassy spot , he lay down and opened the book before him . He read it stumblingly and ...
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... soon as he had been ordained he had jour- neyed to Wentworth . At first he had held ser- vices in an old cabin , but finally secured money enough to build a small church . But in matters of religion , as in matters of education , he had ...
... soon as he had been ordained he had jour- neyed to Wentworth . At first he had held ser- vices in an old cabin , but finally secured money enough to build a small church . But in matters of religion , as in matters of education , he had ...
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... soon the benches at the school - room began to assume quite a different appearance from that they had had at the opening of school ; and one day when Jabez Smith came down to look the school over , he declared that it would soon be ...
... soon the benches at the school - room began to assume quite a different appearance from that they had had at the opening of school ; and one day when Jabez Smith came down to look the school over , he declared that it would soon be ...
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