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Identifier: stnicholasserial392dodg (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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arealso told that in the early days of the settlementof our own country, the boy who went huntinghad his bullets counted. If he failed to bring back game for each bullet expended, there wasan uncomfortable quarter of an hour waiting forhim, if the explanation of the missed shot wasnot satisfactory. Even the nursery jingles tell usthat a certain Thomas Tucker was obliged to singfor his supper. The island slingers plan went even fartherthan this, for they placed the food of their chil-dren on tall poles, and the inexpert marksmanwent hungry if he failed to bring down a mealwith a well-directed stone. These primitive par-ents did not believe in making hunger a spur tothe attainment of skill and then supplying interme-diate lunches to the unskilful, so we can well be-lieve that every boy became expert with hisweapon, and that the fighting strength of theislanders was thus kept to a high figure of merit,so high, in fact, that the geographical name of thegroup has preserved it for all time.
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MR. MOUSE: PARDON ME, MR. TOAD, BUT DO I SEE YOU WEEPING?MR. TOAD: ALAS, YES ! I SLEPT IN AN ONION BED LAST NIGHT. PLAYING THE GAME (A sequel to The Battle of Base-ball*) BY C. H. CLAUDY Chapter III THE FINE ART OF FIELDING Every ball-player has an ambition; every ball-player has to avoid digging a pit for himself.The batters ambition is a base-hit; the pit hewould avoid, being struck out. The pitchersambition is a no-hit game; the pits he must nottumble into are wildness, passing batters, andallowing hits with men on bases. The fieldersambition is to play his game without error ormisplay; his pit, a mistake of judgment or bone-head play, which is far worse than the makingof an error. Errors must happen to the best offielders, at times. In nothing more does the attaining of ambitionshow to greater advantage, nor the results offailing to achieve it look uglier, than in the mak-ing of any play which results in an f. c. in thescore as an indication of how a certain runnerattained a certa

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