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Identifier: stnicholasserial251dodg (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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could read long lessons from be-ginning to end. And pieces ? She could standup before the fireplace and recite with mo- A FUNNY LITTLE SCHOOL. 41 tions, The Boy stood on the Burning Deck and Mary had a Little Lamb, And al-though Uncle Sol had nt gotten so far as The-Chillen-oTsrul-in-de-wilderness, he had learneda few words that were dear to his old heart.There was Ann, for instance. Ann was thename of his old wife, who had been for ten longyears waiting for him in heaven. When hefirst stumbled on her name, he was so muchaffected that he could not find his voice; but, de way she used to tie her head-hankcher upin a little pint, an walk so biggity. Yo gran-mammy was a neat little oman, Louizy-Lou,honey. An sometimes, when I looks at you ansee how nice you ties up yo hair wid dem purtybows of a Sunday, I low you tooken it arteryo granma. Of cose she raised yo mammy,an she s a-raisin you; an dat s de oniesway nice genteel ways has to be passed along.It was in the second season of Louizys
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LOUIZY-LOU AND HER GRANDFATHER. raising his finger, he said, Sh-h-h! and hewould not let the little teacher say anotherword. For a long time he sat pointing to it,just thinking; and then he whispered softly tohimself, A-n-n, Ann — A-n-n, Ann; overand over again. And presently he said, * Datsyo granmas name, baby : A-n-n, Ann. An,somehow, when I sets an studies over it, it sorto looks like my ole oman — yas, it do. She wasa short, thick-set little oman, Ann was—A-n-n,Ann. An dat big A, it favors her considerble,Vol. XXV.—6. schooling,— when she was twelve years old,though she was so small that she seemed hardlyten,— as she and her grandfather were readinga very difficult lesson aloud to some old menwho came to sit and talk at old Sols door, thatDaddy Conrad said, Look heah, Louizy-Lou.What s de reason you cant pass around someo yo book-learnin to de rest of us, I like toknow ? Ef Brer Sol kin learn, Im sho I kin. Dat s what I say, put in Uncle Jake. Ef Louizy-Lou kin learn

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