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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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of pleasant amusements will suggestthemselves to sociable people, and there will be nofear that the time will drag heavily, unless you havemade the mistake of planning to stay too long. It is always better to come away while you allare enjoying yourselves than it is to wait until thefun begins to grow tiresome, and most of the partyhail the proposal to start for home with ill-con-cealed relief. It is better to have it close like SamWellers valentine, while they wish there wasmore of it. But oh, the coming back ! Let each one watchtongue and temper carefully ; for the memory ofmany a pleasant picnic has been spoiled by hastywords from those who seemed the most amiableof the party when they started in the morning.It is so much easier to be smiling and good-na-tured with a pleasant day in prospect, than it iswhen one returns, sun-burned, tired, and dusty, witha general feeling that all the fun is over. Andeven a picnic is not all well unless it endswell. 724 THE GIRAFFE EXCURSION. (July,
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THE llAKTIIOLIJl STATUE. 725 THE BARTHOLDI STATUEBy Charles Barnard. For twelve days the steamer had been steamingon and on toward the western horizon, and, just asfast, the horizon had seemed to fly away, leavingthe ship always in the center of the great circle.Soon the magical change was to come, and theland would appear to rise out of the water. Al-ready the sea-gulls had come back; the sun waswarmer, and it seemed as if we were coming to anew country. Every one was on deck, watching for the firstsight of the land. More than a thousand men,women, and children were on board,— and tomost of them the great continent just under thatpale blue horizon was a land of hope and promise.Land must be very near, for at the foremasthead a sailor ran up a new flag. It seemedto flutter over them all in a friendly way, andperhaps some of them looked at it with newhope and fresh courage. Fire Island abeam! cried out the sailor onthe lookout. Every one gazed off to the right.There it stood, just a

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