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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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ncle Joe. Hurry up, Dicky, man! called out UncleJoe, cheerily. The idea of oversleeping onthis of all mornings ! A merry Christmas to you!And rush down into the library as quickly asyou can. The tree s waiting there for you. Anjuth look what /dot! lisped one ofthe twins, as she lifted to the foot of Dickysbed — whom do you think ? Why, the sweetcreature! Ith nt she pitty ? cooed Dickys sister,softly. And look what I ve got, shouted Johnny,as he pulled forth a gaily painted tin soldier. . Well, come on, children! shouted UncleJoe, from the library. Whereupon Dickyssister lifted the sweet creature tenderly intoher chubby arms, and Johnny hastily tuckedhis tin soldier in his jacket pocket, and downthe family went to see the tree and the otherpresents that Santa Claus could not get intothe stockings. And, somehow, all that winter there wasscarcely a day when Dicky went into the play-room that he did not take a look at the sweetcreature and the little tin soldier. By Julian King Colford.
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A LONDON STREET IN THE TIME OF CHARLES I. The custom of marking a business house by-means of a sign is of very ancient origin. Inthe great cities of the East and among theancient Egyptians such a practice must havebeen unnecessary, as all trades were classifiedand confined to certain sections of the city, andthen all wares were exposed to full view, asthey were displayed in open booths. The history of Grecian sign-boards is meager,yet the allusions of Aristophanes and Lucian tosign-boards warrant our belief in their use bythe Greeks. Athenasus tells us, He hung thewell known sign in front of his house. Advancing to Roman times, there is abundantevidence of signs, as the discoveries of Pompeiiand Herculaneum amply testify. In the EternalCity some of the streets derived their namesfrom signs; just as hundreds of London streetshave been so named. The Roman street Vi-cus Ursi Pileati was named from the sign, for,as the name indicates, it was the street of TheBear with the Hat on. But it w

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